Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parking

L.A. Finally Embraces Sanity on Parking Policy

By Damien Newton | Aug 15, 2012 | 10 Comments

Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council embraced looser parking standards that will allow communities some flexibility in creating parking standards for new development. The full motion can be read here. For decades, Los Angeles has labored under a “one size fits all” approach to parking. This has led to businesses that are forced to put […]

Wait ‘Til Next Year: Parking Reform Bill Pulled from Assembly Committee

By Damien Newton | Jul 5, 2012 | 7 Comments

With the clock ticking, a state bill that would have banned parking minimums near transit nodes in certain circumstances was pulled from the July 3 California Senate Governance and Finance Committee agenda, shooting down major statewide parking reform efforts for at least another year. A.B. 904, a bill which waspraised by parking policy guru and UCLA professor Donald Shoup, appears to be dead […]

401 Broadway Proposal In Santa Monica Goes From Car-Free To Robo-Garage

By Gary Kavanagh | Jun 29, 2012 | 23 Comments

Last week I started a multiple part series on traffic, and the myths that surround it in Santa Monica, promising a part 2. That is still coming, but I am holding it for next week’s column to focus on recent developments concerning what had been proposed as a car-free mixed use apartment building at 401 […]

Donald Shoup Responds to California APA Regarding California’s Parking Reform Bill

By Juan Matute | Jun 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

Professor Donald Shoup poses a parking question at UCLA’s Complete Streets for California event in March. Photo: Juan Matute (A letter from Donald Shoup on AB 904 to the American Planning Association can be found after the jump. – DN) “Donald Shoup is an academic authority on parking and its effects on transportation, land use, […]

As We Redraft Santa Monica Zoning, Let’s Drop The Parking Minimums

By Gary Kavanagh | May 4, 2012 | No Comments

Ever since I attended a lecture by Donald Shoup at the LA Street summit in 2010, it has been stuck in my brain that most municipal zoning codes effectively make it illegal for developers to pursue truly sustainable models of development. Parking minimum requirements set a bar for levels of parking that must be built, […]

First Look at Farmer’s Field Traffic EIR: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

By Damien Newton | Apr 5, 2012 | 13 Comments

Earlier today, AEG announced the completion of the first draft of environmental documents for Farmers Field, the proposed football stadium for Downtown Los Angeles. The document, available on City Planning’s website, is a mammoth 10,000 pages and the ceremonial handing over of the documents to the city at today’s event involved 13 overflowing three ring […]

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