Portland Now Has the Smartest Parking Policies in the Northwest
We’re going to call it: No city in the Northwest, and few cities in North America, are doing parking policy better than Portland. With a unanimous vote last week, its ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Portland’s Latest Smart Idea: Meters That Charge What Parking Is Worth
Every time someone parks a car on the street outside Steven Lien’s downtown Portland shop, an invisible clock inside his business plan starts to tick. If they’re stopping by his ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Parking Eats Up $117,677 of Local Wealth for Every Household in Seattle
When we at Sightline talk about the opportunity to end hidden subsidies for parking that drive up the cost of everything else in our economy, it can be hard to ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Build Less, Share More: An Urban Mantra for Taming Parking
If I were Emperor of Cascadia, I would ban all rules that require new buildings to provide off-street parking spaces. The case against mandating parking couldn’t be stronger: parking makes ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Will Seattle Suppress a Key Parking Fix?
This is a convoluted story about an 11-page memo on parking meters. It seems a trifle at first—an obscure bureaucratic kerfuffle. But it’s not. The subject of the memo is ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Portland May Offer a Parking Win-Win-Win
Here in Southeast Portland, many of my neighbors are concerned about parking. In particular, they worry that new residents in the apartment buildings popping up along SE Division and other ...
