Steve Wright’s Post

Cities should eliminate minimum parking requirements, which often mandate more parking spaces than the market requires. Studies have shown that parking spaces in a garage can add $30,000 or more to the price of a unit. https://lnkd.in/eHDHr-KQ #planning #zoning #housing #parking

So I've been following recent posts about small town core revitalization efforts in england with some interest. One aspect in particular is how similar the conversation sounds to the main street conversations we've been having since the 70's(?). I don't know if the issues are specific to england and the u.s., but I do find it a little bit reassuring that the problems of downtown revitalization, and the solutions, are on some level more universally applicable. (note all the qualifiers in that statement), because it suggests to me that if the best revitalization methods (like the main street 4 point approach) do have a fundamental application everywhere, then conversely, policies they combat (like pavement widening, single family only large lot zoning, and parking minimums), are fundamentally inappropriate, and that has implications for revising zoning, land use, and design code.

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We are happy to share that the Concord Meadow Lane/Market Street Paving project is substantially complete! The Market Street revitalization will surely make commuting smoother and safer for all of Concord. PROJECT:  Meadow Lane/Market Street Paving CLIENT:  City of Concord, California OVERVIEW:  Market Street in Concord is a major arterial street and vital transportation corridor that includes on- and off-ramps to 6-lane Highway 242 as well as access to downtown Concord, retail shopping, and other businesses. Improvements have included: >> Pavement rehabilitation >> New curb ramps to meet #accessibility standards >> Utility adjustments >> Conduit installation for future #FiberOptic >> Separated #BikeLanes where feasible #ConcordCA #TransportationEngineering #RoadDesign 

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☁️ What goes up must come down… once the necessary repairs have been made at least. The Cherry Street Bridge over the Ship Channel in Toronto's Port Lands is the city's only bascule bridge (now that the Cherry Street bridge over the Keating Channel has been replaced), and some of the machinery that raises and lowers the bridge need replacement. The replacement is scheduled for sometime soon... but the bridge seems to rather impatient for its impending upgrades. For the meantime, if you want to access Cherry Beach, as per this image by #UTForum contributor hawc, taken on a foggy say with the bridge stuck in the upright position, you'll have to go around and approach via Leslie Street. When the bridge will reopen to car traffic, seems to only be a foggy notion. https://lnkd.in/ghe9dMzi #Toronto #development #construction

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Planetizen | Peter Calthorpe calls this the “grand boulevard” strategy, noting that it “could be implemented with a basic form-based code with zero parking requirements.” “A 15 percent inclusionary zoning requirement would create 300,000 affordable housing units in the Golden State.” That strategy is central to a 2023 California state law, AB 2011, which allows for more mixed-use development and higher density in certain areas. “Using UrbanFootprint software, Calthorpe analyzed a 43-mile commercial corridor between San Francisco and San Jose, the El Camino Real. Reimagining this as a grand boulevard allows 3,500 acres of infill development, with up to 250,000 dwelling units—some with ground-floor commercial space.” Infill development on Bay Area commercial corridors could create over 1 million new housing units.

This piece describes a collaborative effort to feasibly increase housing stock with ADUs. If you have a big enough yard this seems like a reasonable idea. However, in urban locations with limited space between dwellings, I wonder how the buried utilities for these ADUs get routed to the street without major disruption to existing driveways, walls, trees, and fences. More roofs mean managing additional storm runoff. Some details to figure out. Jeremy Liu