1. An bill that would replace New Jersey's court-mandated patchwork of inclusionary zoning programs with a more uniform 10% affordable housing mandate has left advanced through its Assembly committee after passing the NJ Senate, though Chris Christie promised to veto it. 2. Last month I reported … [Read more...]
DC parking minimums to “disappear in most cases”
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...]
Your consolation link list
Apologies to everyone for the light posting – over the next few weeks I may be a bit busy with job and internship applications (any suggestions for work or job offers would be very much appreciated!), but hopefully I'll still be able to put up a few posts a week. But for now, all you get is this … [Read more...]
Matt Yglesias’ proposal for reforming DC’s ANC’s
At the risk of turning Market Urbanism into Reblogging Matt Yglesias, here's another interesting post from the blogosphere's most famous market urbanist about reforming DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) system. After discussing a recent decision by an ANC incumbent to deny Five Guys … [Read more...]
Matt Yglesias attacks parking maximums, outs himself as a market urbanist
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...]
Midnight parking round-up
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...]
Hell freezes over, or: the one in which I agree with Randal O’Toole’s argument over Shoup’s
I never thought the day would come, but I actually find myself taking issue with Donald Shoup's recent criticism of the Cato Institute (which Randal O'Toole works for) and its own DC headquarters' employee parking program. While I agree with Shoup's more general critique of Cato's stance on … [Read more...]
New York City links
There are a couple of NYC-related links that I've been saving up, so here they are: 1. Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indiannapolis and NYC's new deputy mayor, appears to be interested in privatizing New York City's parking meters in order to balance the city's budget. We're more interested … [Read more...]
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