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LA Metro Saddles NoHo Station Redevelopment With $48M Parking Expansion
In a recent post at The Source, Metro announced a new call for joint development at four large parcels of land at and adjacent to its North Hollywood Red and Orange Line Stations. Curbed L.A. reports that the NoHo parcels could include an estimated 750 to 1,500 units of housing, up to 12 stories tall. Hopefully, plenty of that housing will be affordable, based on Metro's recently adopted joint development policies.
September 14, 2015
Today in Two Steps Backwards: USC Discontinues Rideshare Subsidy Program for 3000+ Employees; Offers Parking Passes as Consolation
The letter sent to the more than three thousand faculty and staff that participated in USC's Rideshare Subsidy Program this past June 16th started off happily enough.
July 13, 2015
Drivers Lose a 27-Cent Parking Subsidy – KPIX and KTVU Lose Their Sh*t
The sky is falling! San Francisco drivers paying parking meters with credit cards will no longer get their 27-cent credit card transaction fees bankrolled by the federal government.
July 10, 2015
Residential Parking Reforms Should Benefit All of Minneapolis
In June Streets.mn reported that Minneapolis might drop parking minimums for residential developments near transit stations. By doing so, the city would promote walkable development and reduce housing costs.
July 8, 2015
Someone Finally Figured Out How to Fix Parking Forever: Blame Canada!
Car owners in Hayes Valley will not stand by as "their" parking spaces are usurped by safe streets measures and "foreign" car-share "corporations" from places like "Delaware" and "Canada."
July 7, 2015
Killing a Transit Project Isn’t Going to Fix Your City’s Parking Crunch
Yesterday Streetsblog USA ran a post from Michael Andersen about how Newark fixed the glut of parked cars on Mount Prospect Avenue, the first street in New Jersey to get a protected bike lane: Instead of letting people park in the bikeway, the city started charging for parking. With a price on parking, people stopped storing their cars on the street all day long, and there was finally some turnover. Problem solved.
July 2, 2015
Affordable Housing Awards from Cap-and-Trade Funds Announced
On Monday, the California Strategic Growth Council announced its recommendations for the first round of funding under the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program. SGC staff recommended 28 projects, to be awarded a total of $122 million. The projects are split about evenly between Northern and Southern California.
June 24, 2015
Milwaukee Could Pay Big Bucks for Downtown NBA Arena, and Its Parking
Publicly-financed arenas for privately-owned sports franchises are usually a bad deal for taxpayers. And the proposal for a new Milwaukee Bucks facility looks like a humdinger.
June 18, 2015
Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand
Two years after the city gave Fisherman's Wharf a people-friendly redesign on two blocks of Jefferson Street, business is booming. Despite merchants' fears that removing all car parking on the blocks would hurt their sales, they now say it had the opposite effect.
June 15, 2015
The San Diego Leaders Who Sacrificed People for Parking
Earlier this year a street safety plan for Hillcrest and other San Diego neighborhoods was derailed after NIMBYs complained about the loss of curbside parking.
June 10, 2015