This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]
Making space for storing large metal boxes is no longer mandatory.
Yeah I have mixed feelings about this too. I hope they have data to show that that is not necessary. If I were in charge I’d have large parking structures around the perimeter of the transit network so people can get to it from outside of town and are able to use it easily without the friction of finding a spot. That way more people can get to it and use it but fewer people need cars within it.
Read the article. This is about housing near transit. What use case would there be for a park-and-ride at their home? Are they supposed to be driving from their door to the far side of the parking lot?
It’s also a bureaucratic change rather than functional. It used to be a permit you’d have to apply for, which added costs. Now it’s just not required to build parking within a 5 minute walk of transit
@makyo@kresten The “data” used to create most residential parking mandates was collected in car-dependent suburban areas and is completely inappropriate for application to dense urban apartment buildings near transit where many residents don’t own cars. Eliminating the costly mandate to construct parking that often goes unused on valuable land only restores choice. A developer isn’t prohibited from building as much parking as their market research tells them they can profitably sell or lease.
Yeah I have mixed feelings about this too. I hope they have data to show that that is not necessary. If I were in charge I’d have large parking structures around the perimeter of the transit network so people can get to it from outside of town and are able to use it easily without the friction of finding a spot. That way more people can get to it and use it but fewer people need cars within it.
Read the article. This is about housing near transit. What use case would there be for a park-and-ride at their home? Are they supposed to be driving from their door to the far side of the parking lot?
It’s also a bureaucratic change rather than functional. It used to be a permit you’d have to apply for, which added costs. Now it’s just not required to build parking within a 5 minute walk of transit
@makyo @kresten The “data” used to create most residential parking mandates was collected in car-dependent suburban areas and is completely inappropriate for application to dense urban apartment buildings near transit where many residents don’t own cars. Eliminating the costly mandate to construct parking that often goes unused on valuable land only restores choice. A developer isn’t prohibited from building as much parking as their market research tells them they can profitably sell or lease.
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