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Cities all across the country are saying goodbye to off-street parking minimums! 🚫🅿️ Did you know that cities like Austin and Anchorage are ditching their off-street parking minimums? It's a fascinating shift in urban planning that aims to prioritize pedestrians, reduce traffic congestion, and promote greener transportation options. But what do you think about this trend? Share your thoughts! 💭🗯️ #UrbanPlanning #ParkingTrends https://hubs.li/Q02f5W6J0

In New York City, the escalating car ownership rates, which have never been higher, are amplifying the challenge of finding parking, turning it into a veritable nightmare for many residents. Nia Smith from Bedford-Stuyvesant and Elya Shavrova from Ditmas Park depict the daily struggles they endure due to limited parking, with Smith sometimes waking up at 4 a.m. to relocate her car. In Murray Hill, Jake Dann-Soury continues a car-centric lifestyle inherited from his father, illustrating the common ritual of moving his car for street cleaners. The city’s streets, predominantly occupied by vehicles, are a source of frustration for many as experts like Henry Grabar and Danny Harris advocate for rethinking the allocation of these spaces. With around three million parking spaces, 97% of which are free, and over 2.2 million registered vehicles in New York, the tension over parking availability is palpable. Grabar and other urbanists see the current model of predominantly free, permanent street parking as outdated and a missed opportunity for enhancing urban life. Proposed solutions include a parking permit system for residential areas and the removal of curbside parking near intersections to improve safety. Significant is the initiative known as Park(ing) Day, which originated from a guerrilla art intervention by a group of urbanists and activists who transformed a parking space in San Francisco into a public park. This experiment highlighted the potential of repurposing parking spaces into green, social spaces, promoting a vision for a city that offers more than just vehicle storage. Proposals for repurposing these spaces include creating more green areas to combat climate issues, designing child-friendly zones, encouraging street commerce, and envisioning the streets as extensions of living spaces—proactive steps that could drastically improve the quality of urban life. #NYCParkingNightmare #UrbanPlanning #GreenCities #ParkingDay #SustainableNYC #PublicSpaces #StreetLife https://lnkd.in/eTQYDAMu

US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot California and many local governments are scrapping requirements that once made cars the center of the urban landscape. "There are between three and six car parking spaces per car in the US, numbering up to 2 billion in total, according to some estimates. In much of the US, more space is devoted to parking than housing—in Jackson, Wyoming, for example, parking spaces outnumber homes 27 to 1, research has found." https://lnkd.in/gMAiRryC The Automated Parking Company designs and builds innovative urban parking systems that maximizes parking capacity & costs less to build, operate and maintain VS regular cement parking garages. Real Estate Developers, Architects and Commercial Property Owners can meet their parking requirements and enhance their users parking experience with modern automated Parking Systems, Puzzle Parking Systems and Our Car Stackers. Get A Free Consultation with our Automated Parking Systems Design Engineers about how we can customize a modern parking solution for your multi family or commercial real estate project. The Automated Parking Company is on Inc. https://lnkd.in/ggSd-X9p (661) 430-3244 or visit us at https://lnkd.in/g8EMe2ji #parkingautomation #parkingautomatedsolutions #desigmcustomparking #carparkingstackers #constuctiondevelopers #parkingengineersolutions #parkingdesigns #innovativeparkingsolutions #fastroboticparking #newparkingtechnology #newparking_style Robotic Parking, Robotic Parking Garage, Puzzle Parking, Automated Parking, Automated Parking System, Automated Car Parking, Automated Parking Garage, Parking Stackers, Garage Car Stacker, Stack Parking System, Double Stacker, Triple Stacker, TAPCO, Puzzl Car Parking System, Car Parking Lift System, Lift Parking System, Car Stacker, Car Stack Lift AGV, #AGV, #tapco, #automatedparking, #puzzleparking, #stackers

Cities all across the country are saying goodbye to off-street parking minimums! 🚫🅿️ Did you know that cities like Austin and Anchorage are ditching their off-street parking minimums? It's a fascinating shift in urban planning that aims to prioritize pedestrians, reduce traffic congestion, and promote greener transportation options. But what do you think about this trend? Share your thoughts! 💭🗯️ #UrbanPlanning #ParkingTrends https://hubs.li/Q02f5W270

As I re-listen to Joni Mitchell's opening line of Big Yellow Taxi, "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot," I can't help but think of the enormous amount of precious land I've seen covered in asphalt and concrete. Thankfully, forward-thinking municipalities are now giving us the chance to slow the paving down and reclaim pieces of our urban paradise. Austin and more than 50 other cities and towns have thrown out their government mandated parking spot minimums. These minimums, attached to almost every type of development, are often arbitrarily assigned, and have led to parking lot sprawl pretty much everywhere in the US. These sprawling areas of asphalt and concrete have made our cities hotter, less livable, less green, less walkable and less bikable, and less developable and affordable (yes, countless housing developments have been nixed because they couldn't meet parking minimums). By throwing out their parking spot minimums, these are cities displaying leadership and are broadcasting that it's time to be smarter (and more market driven) about how we use our urban real estate - that is, in the service of making our cities more livable for people, not more convenient for cars. Bravo, and may many more cities follow in their footsteps. #urbandevelopment #urbanmobility #urbanism #livablecities #austin

"People will choose to walk when walking is useful, safe, comfortable and interesting... A city can achieve much greater safety in just a year or two, before the next election, by fixing its streets... "Almost every street needs changes, and most can be accomplished cheaply, with paint. The objectives are simple: making walking and biking (and driving) safer, and helping businesses to thrive. The strategy is straightforward: redesign streets to discourage illegal speeding...: Remove excess lanes... Road diets for 4-laners... Right-size the lanes... Redirect reclaimed street space to best-practice bike lanes... Revert multi-lane one-ways back to two-way... Replace signals with all-way stop signs... Tighten oversized intersections... Protect curbs with parallel parking and trees... Stripe parking but not centrelines (yield streets)... Follow the data!" Jeff Speck #WalkableCity #Walkability #walkablecities #activetransport #community #localbusiness #streetspace #streetspaceallocation #trafficengineering #transportplanning #peoplefirst #urbanmobility #roadsafety https://lnkd.in/g762xcPM

I am ecstatic to read about Columbus Downtown Development Corporation/Capitol South's new 'Capital Line' development. Where do I even begin? 😁 . . . This is *precisely* the sort of human-centric infrastructure that Downtown sorely lacks. Despite what many may think, it is a matter of providing safer alternatives to driving, not eliminating it entirely. 🚲 🚶♂️ . . . As a #SouthSide resident, I think the 'wheel-in-spoke' idea for future growth of this development will also be a key to Columbus' long-term growth. Reconnecting Downtown with its surrounding communities will go a long way to help mend the harmful effects of 'redlining' neighborhoods from the 1950's. ⚖ . . . By far the most exciting implication is the European-style 'Christmas Market' concept shown in one of the renderings. 🎄 . . . Now, if only we could get some weight behind developing a local, light rail system we'd have it made! Maybe someday we will see a return to traditional modes of transportation, before cars took over. A man can dream, can't he? 🚉 #DowntownColumbus #development #pedestrian #CityPlanning #transit #InvestInTheFuture #bike #NewUrbanism #15MinuteCity #Columbus #Ohio https://lnkd.in/g6ackkGF

All over the country, cities are getting rid of off-street parking requirements. How would that work in the Charleston region (and South Carolina for that matter)? What would it mean for development patterns, transit, property value, mobility and other characteristics of the built environment?

US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot California and many local governments are scrapping requirements that once made cars the center of the urban landscape. "There are between three and six car parking spaces per car in the US, numbering up to 2 billion in total, according to some estimates. In much of the US, more space is devoted to parking than housing—in Jackson, Wyoming, for example, parking spaces outnumber homes 27 to 1, research has found." https://lnkd.in/gMAiRryC The Automated Parking Company designs and builds innovative urban parking systems that maximizes parking capacity & costs less to build, operate and maintain VS regular cement parking garages, you can depreciate in 5 years VS. 28 years with regular cement parking garages. Real Estate Developers, Architects and Commercial Property Owners can meet their parking requirements and enhance their users parking experience with modern automated Parking Systems, Puzzle Parking Systems and Our Car Stackers. Get A Free Consultation with our Automated Parking Systems Design Engineers about how we can customize a modern parking solution for your multi family or commercial real estate project. The Automated Parking Company is on Inc. https://lnkd.in/ggSd-X9p (661) 430-3244 or visit us at https://lnkd.in/g8EMe2ji #parkingautomation #parkingautomatedsolutions #desigmcustomparking #carparkingstackers #constuctiondevelopers #parkingengineersolutions #parkingdesigns #innovativeparkingsolutions #fastroboticparking #newparkingtechnology #newparking_style Robotic Parking, Robotic Parking Garage, Puzzle Parking, Automated Parking, Automated Parking System, Automated Car Parking, Automated Parking Garage, Parking Stackers, Garage Car Stacker, Stack Parking System, Double Stacker, Triple Stacker, TAPCO, Puzzl Car Parking System, Car Parking Lift System, Lift Parking System, Car Stacker, Car Stack Lift AGV, #AGV, #tapco, #automatedparking, #puzzleparking, #stackers

I've been a Strong Towns member since November 2022 when I was inspired by Not Just Bikes to make a difference in my own city at the neighborhood level. It's tangible and rewarding to watch small acts like talking to an alder or speaking at Common Council pile up into wins that help improve my neighborhood. One of the bigger acts I've taken is helping host a Crash Analysis Studio (tomorrow!) for a pedestrian fatality that occurred two blocks away from my apartment. The crash was not reported on by local media and the only physical indicator that it occurred is two sets of flowers that I routinely see replenished. I've learned a lot about street design through the "Safe and Productive Streets" campaign and I knew that Strong Towns hosts a monthly session to examine and suggest improvements to streets and intersections that are inherently dangerous through design, across the United States. The purpose is simple: no one should be the second person to die on a dangerous street. I got in touch with the coordinators and made the case for Raymond and Prairie Road. There was no excessive speeding. There wasn't an inebriated driver. A pedestrian attempted to cross a street where the driver's instinct is to look left for cars rather than look right for people. On a red light, the driver hit the pedestrian while turning right. It's tragic, but it's fixable and we can do it with just a couple tweaks to the street. I measured the streets, took videos and pictures, and conducted a two hour speed study showing 97% of drivers going above the 30 mph speed limit and one driver going 73 mph. There are 3 schools and a library within .5 miles of this intersection; we are waiting for more tragic stories if we continue with the status quo. If you'd like to learn more about safe and productive street design, please join us on Friday at 11am central as we discuss inattentional blindness and what we can do about it. There will also be a recording (and you can find other Crash Analysis Studio sessions) at https://lnkd.in/gHBSJpyW. If you have ever felt that there's a street that's too dangerous in your neighborhood, reach out and I can walk you through the steps I took to try and make my street safe for everyone.