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The High Cost of Free Parking
As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports, professor Donald Shoup of UCLA has just released his magnum opus on the consequences of free parking. Judging by its table of contents, the book sounds important. Shoup is perhaps the world’s leading expert on parking, so I’m optimistic. More when I’ve read it… Why parking matters so much is summarized here (registration required).Read more » -
Free Parking
Here’s a nifty idea, via the San Francisco Chronicle: smart parking lots that let you know when there’s a space available. Some train stations in the Bay Area’s rapid transit system are perpetually short of parking. But at others, some parking spaces are open all day long. So one underutilized station has installed a system that continuously monitors the number of parking spaces that are available, and advertises that information...Read more » -
Parking Tax
Greater Vancouver could be the first Cascadian metropolitan area to impose what transportation and smart-growth reformers have long advocated: a metro-wide tax on parking spaces to help pay for road maintenance and transit, as today’s Vancouver Sunreports (subscription required). The tax would fall on all nonresidential parking stalls and might come to about $28 per year. The province has a lot of work to do on the specifics before the...Read more » -
No Such Thing as a Free . . . Parking Space?
An excellent article in today’s Seattle Times documents the sundry carrots and sticks that businesses use to reduce solo driving. Few things are less sexy but more powerful than parking—a point Sightline has been making for some time. (This op-ed ticked off Rush Limbaugh, despite the fact that our argument—that parking should be deregulated—comes straight from the free-market playbook.) The federal tax code should stop subsidizing parking and local governments...Read more » -
Transportation + Transit
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Can We Go Beyond Car Primacy—To Policymaking that Serves People and Places First?
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Audit Stretches to Find Trouble in Portland’s Affordability Mandate
Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. On Wednesday, the Portland city auditor’s office released an investigation of Portland’s inclusionary housing program, the affordability mandate that applies to new buildings of 20 or more homes. The audit makes some good arguments and some confusing arguments. It found one fairly glaring problem in the program: a two-year backlog in the...Read more » -
Seattle Deserves a Better Comp Plan
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Boise’s New Zoning Code Sparks Surge in Permits for ADUs
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It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates