Evanston could raise – or lower – parking rates to balance demand evanstonroundtable.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from evanstonroundtable.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A version of this article first appeared in Streetsblog.
As President Biden pushes to install a network of electric vehicle chargers across America, some advocates are wondering where they will all go and if the effort will deal a blow to the movement to reform urban parking policy.
Some sustainability advocates applauded Biden last month when his long-awaited infrastructure plan, the American Jobs Act, included a program that would fund the construction of 500,000 new EV chargers. But besides a commitment to building a nationwide network of fast chargers on highways, Biden hasn’t yet clarified how, exactly, that money would be divided among incentive programs to put chargers in the homes of private drivers, the parking lots of private businesses and apartment buildings, and even city-subsidized spots on public streets and what the consequences of those choices will be for cities.
To get more cities to finally reform their outdated parking standards, we need to stop talking about “taking away” spots and focus on what we all stand to gain, like an accelerated path to ending climate change.
That’s one of the findings of a new report from the Institute for Transportation Development and Policy, which examines the perennial question of how to build support for common-sense parking reforms, such as rationally pricing spaces, removing minimum parking requirements for developers, and more readily allowing residents to use empty curbside asphalt for literally anything else.
But unlike the countless studies that have used stats to outline the benefits of cutting car storage from reducing emissions to curing congestion to curbing VMT and on and on this study instead explored the messaging and organizing tactics that might actually
Two villages of tiny homes are planned in Philadelphia after a series of protest encampments elevated concerns about homelessness in the city, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The two villages are still in the planning stages. One in Northeast Philadelphia is planned as transitional housing with on-site homeless services, and is expected to include between 12 and 24 small “pods,” 120 square feet each, with heat and electricity but no water or bathrooms, relying instead on a central kitchen, bathroom, and laundry shared among residents, according to the report. The other, in West Philadelphia, will include 24 permanent homes of 400 square feet each with utilities, bathrooms, and kitchens, the report says. The two villages are expected to cost $500,000 and $1.2 million, respectively, according to the story.
It s unanimous: Oregon land use board says no to car parking minimums bikeportland.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bikeportland.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.