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As much Mr Evans' proposed parking changes are a small step in the right direction - just making resident only parking on one side of the street will make little difference to us here in the Logan Circle/14th St area. The issue for us is not just people from the burbs coming in to play - it's much bigger than that. The issue we face is a plethora of new developments adding to the parking burden because they aren't required to provide underground parking. Until parking requirements for new development approvals are tightened this situation will only get worse. And when I say "new developments" I include conversions of existing buildings.

I've number crunched the impact of three new developments in and around my block (1400 bock of R Street). These are the two on the corner of 14th & R and the new one where AYT repair shop is currently located. I haven't included the proposed City Union Mission because they're still silent about the number of units in that development. The guys in the AYT condo won't have resident only unlimited street parking availability at all as they've 14th St at the front and an alley at the rear of their building.

So for my block the number of cars potentially being added to our parking situation is, using one car per unit: 32 at the Aston (18 parking spots included in the development), and 36 at Northern Exchange = 50 cars). Add to this say 30 cars for the AYT condo building and you get potentially 80 new cars daily competing for the 10 spots which are located outside of the two new condos. That's pretty dire! So "one-side of the street" unlimited parking will not make one bit of difference to us.

by @nodecomms on Mar 9, 2012 11:00 am • link • report