By: Stephen Smith
*sigh*…yet another city goes straight from parking minimums to parking maximums without stopping in between at the market equilibrium. We all acknowledge that maximums are bad, but can’t we at least...
View ArticleBy: Terry
@Stephen- I agree with your argument, but Ms. Schaaf makes a good point: community groups often demand more parking. Parking maximums might allow developers to stick to certain parking amounts rather...
View ArticleBy: Stephen Smith
Two things: 1. I see your point. Then again, community groups have the power to grant zoning variances today (even if it’s a de facto power), and under a future “parking maximum” regime, I wouldn’t be...
View ArticleBy: JK
Um, why should developers and current market demand dictate what our city looks like for the next century or more?
View ArticleBy: Stephen Smith
@JK— Pick a city, any city. See all those beautiful buildings that were built before 1940? Those were built by profit-seeking developers, generally without zoning rules. See all those hideous buildings...
View ArticleBy: zach
Stephen- Bravo. When we get behind “market pricing” or, better, “free market pricing” we will get conservatives involved. In order to get the screaming car maniacs quieted, we capitulate to lower or...
View ArticleBy: zach
Can we use Shoup to install market-rate tolls on the tunnels? Congestion pricing can be called “free market traffic.”
View ArticleBy: Jeffrey Hymen
If DCP believes “It is not the requirements themselves that influence car ownership, but rather, housing density and distance from the core of Manhattan,” perhaps it could test the waters by reducing...
View ArticleBy: Shemp
Not entirely true, Zach. Go back a few weeks on Streetsblog DC and you will see that a state policy to reward the relaxation of rigid zoning codes in hopes of fostering more mixed use development and...
View ArticleBy: zach
Shemp- Many conservatives DO care about deregulation, if it’s put that way. Not all of them, and maybe not the loudest ones, but enough to make a difference, particularly if we can put it in their...
View ArticleBy: Alon Levy
Shemp, the Tea Party types are right-wing populists. The more libertarian types (though not the Kochtopus) are right-wing liberals. In Europe they’d be members of two separate parties – one on the...
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