Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parking

How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica

By Carter Rubin | Jul 23, 2013 | 20 Comments

Editor’s Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, […]

Visualizing America’s Absurd Parking Requirements

By Angie Schmitt | May 23, 2013 | No Comments

Architect Seth Goodman is on a mission to illustrate the absurdity of parking requirements. The above image, showing mandatory parking requirements for office buildings in different American cities, is one of three infographics he created to show the extent to which American cities mandate the construction of parking. The worst offenders in the office category […]

They Paved Paradise, Parking In Santa Monica

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 29, 2013 | 2 Comments

Parking has been dominating the public policy debate in Santa Monica the past few weeks, ever since the local lobbying group Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC) made transportation consultant Jeffery Tumlin into a target. Unfortunately they subsequently succeeded in having him removed from Santa Monica projects after years of great work with […]

With All Eyes on L.A., Villaraigosa Signs New Bike Parking Ordinance

By Damien Newton | Feb 1, 2013 | 15 Comments

Moments ago, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed a new bicycle parking ordinance into law which requires more bicycle parking at new developments and even allows a small swap of car parking for bike parking in certain approved development plans. The ordinance was on the verge of being signed last year before a series of small technical […]

LA Planners Leapfrog NYC DCP, Approve Plan With No Mandatory Parking

By Ben Fried | Dec 17, 2012 | No Comments

Angie reported this morning that Washington, DC, is moving to reduce mandatory parking requirements in much of the city, which should lower the cost of housing and curb traffic. Meanwhile, despite talk last year of wide-ranging parking reforms for New York’s “inner ring” encircling the Manhattan core, the Department of City Planning has so far […]

The Los Angeles Times Really Doesn’t Think Drivers Should Be Fined for Parking at Broken Meters

By Damien Newton | Dec 12, 2012 | 6 Comments

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to continue the city policy of ticketing motorized vehicles parked in metered spaces where the meter is vandalized. Since the city began this program in 2009, the number of broken meters has dropped signifiganty, because of a combination of factors including the installation of newer parking meters […]

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