Alan Durning
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Spot-Less: Why Parking Quotas Could Wither Away
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This post is the 17th and final post in the series: Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of the Sightline Institute. Parking reform may finally be coming. Here are eight reasons to hope for change soon: Noah’s (P)ark. UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, like a modern day Noah, has been carrying a new […]
Parking Break: What Cities Gain When They Lose Parking Quotas
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This is the season climax, the culmination, the big reveal. Previously on Parking? Lots! Cities mandate off-street parking (guided only by junk science and groupthink). They do it in fear of territorial neighbors who want “their” curb spaces left alone. Our communities suffer horribly as a result. Information technology is shaking things up, though, and […]
Curb Appeal
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Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Imagine if you could put a meter in front of your house and charge every driver who parks in “your” space. It’d be like having a cash register at the curb. Free money! How much would you collect? Hundreds […]
There’s a (Parking) Place for Us
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This post is #14 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. There are places in this world the savvy traveler would never drive with any hope of finding street parking: Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, for example, or just about anywhere in downtown Los Angeles. That’s what you […]
Apartment Blockers
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Alan Durning is the executive director and founder of Sightline Institute, a think tank on sustainability issues in the Pacific Northwest. This article, originally posted on Sightline’s blog, is #9 in their series, “Parking? Lots!” Have you ever watched the excavation that precedes a tall building? It seems to take forever. Then, when the digging […]