Donald Shoup and Randal O'Toole – they just can't get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O'Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental … [Read more...]
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NYC’s horrible parking privatization plan
In the past, Market Urbanism has not been very pleased with municipal parking privatization schemes. While we are pro-privatization in theory, in practice, many of the schemes turn out to be seriously deficient in market credentials. For one, true privatization would mean giving the "owners" full … [Read more...]
Even a HUD project in a high-density Bronx neighborhood can’t escape the parking minimum
This should come as no surprise to anyone who's taken a look at America's absurdly restrictive minimum parking requirements, but Streetsblog has come up with a really great example of really bad parking policy in action: The HUD-sponsored project, located on Bathgate Avenue between 183rd and 184th … [Read more...]
Jamaica, Queens upzoning was great, but don’t forget the parking minimums
In Next American City, Aaron Barker discusses the failure of NYC's massive rezoning in the highly transit-dependent black and immigrant neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens: One of the centerpieces of [NYC's] initiative to house an expected 1 million new arrivals in the coming decades was the Jamaica … [Read more...]
More empirical evidence that parking minimums matter
The other day, I had a meeting with Sam Staley and we both lamented the paucity of good empirical evidence about how land use regulations actually affect the built environment. For the ubiquitous minimum parking requirements, the only thing I've seen up until now was this study about the effects for … [Read more...]
Yet another town moves from parking minimums to maximums with no stop in between
Despite its ridiculously biased opening sentence ("Fairfax County residents will have a harder time finding a free parking space in some neighborhoods if transportation planners get their way"), the Washington Post actually has a relatively informative article on potential new parking maximums in … [Read more...]
Parking lots as tax arbitrage during the Great Depression
I've learned a lot from Fogelson's Downtown, but one thing that I had absolutely no idea about before I read this book was how Depression-era tax policies encouraged downtown landlords to tear down their buildings and replace them with parking lots (emphasis mine): By the mid 1930s the owners of … [Read more...]
Private parking contracting giving ‘privatization’ a bad name
In the past Market Urbanism has been lukewarm on parking "privatization" (Adam on Chicago and me on LA), but I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's a bad idea. To start off with, these "privatizations" are actually private contracting schemes – the "owners" are barely even allowed to set … [Read more...]