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Free parking outside the $1,000/mo garage

December 10, 2010 By Stephen Smith

This $1,000+/mo. parking space (without the 18+% parking tax! but one Curbed commenters calls bullshit) on the Upper East Side has been bouncing around the NYC blogosphere, and Curbed commenter low baller just about sums up my thoughts on the matter: And people howl because street parking is going … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: nyc, parking

Parking politics in the 1920s and a bleg

December 10, 2010 By Stephen Smith

While doing research for something totally unrelated, I came across this paper by Asha Weinstein (.pdf) on parking policy in Boston in the 1920s. One of the things she (?) discusses is the political feasibility of charging for the right to park downtown: Despite this general consensus, however, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston, history, meta, parking

NYC to raise on-street parking rates, local news freaks out

November 24, 2010 By Stephen Smith

New York City has some of the most underpriced parking in the nation, and while there have been a few pilot programs (in the UES, the West Village, and Park Slope) to raise rates during peak hours, it looks like Bloomberg is finally pushing to implement Park Smart citywide.  Residential metered … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: nyc, parking

Ann Arbor’s biggest problem with medical marijuana? Parking

November 15, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Of course it would be the only thing standing in the way of Ann Arbor, the famously liberal college town that almost legalized weed in the '60s and '70s, and medical marijuana: Even for some Ann Arbor residents, the city's tacit acceptance started to give way to unease. As more and more … [Read more...]

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DC parking minimums to “disappear in most cases”

November 11, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Last month, Eric Fidler of Greater Greater Washington left a tantalizing comment suggesting that DC was going to do away with its minimum parking requirements soon. Obviously this would be very big news and a welcome change for market urbanists, and it looks like it might indeed pan out. On Monday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, parking

Matt Yglesias attacks parking maximums, outs himself as a market urbanist

October 26, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Matt Yglesias has been on a roll lately with the urbanism posts, all of which have a heavy "market urbanist" slant, but it's this post about parking reform in/around Boston (riffing off of this Boston Globe article) that seals the deal for me: Regulators pushing developers to build less parking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, smart growth, taxes

Midnight parking round-up

October 20, 2010 By Stephen Smith

1. Donald Shoup makes up for last week with an interesting piece on how America's tax structure biases employers towards providing parking for their employees, similar to how untaxed employer-provided healthcare shapes that industry. 2. Back in August Randal O'Toole asked for proof that minimum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup, parking, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith, Urban Planning

Enforced price ceilings on private parking lots

September 15, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen Smith I wrote last week about a tendency in developing Asian countries to emulate the most anti-market Western planning policies, but I didn't realize it was this bad. Paul Barter writes: Would it surprise you to know that some cities control the price of parking even for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: China, parking, Southeast Asia

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