Posts tagged Municipal Parking
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Breakfast links: Cut off
All falls down; Emancipation Day; High flying; Location, location; Wage wants; Goodies; No fly zone; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery throws more money at unneeded parking
Montgomery County is about to spend tens of millions of dollars on a 395-space parking garage in Wheaton, even though more than 500 parking spaces sit empty in a Metro garage a block away. The new garage would sit northwest of the Metro station, beneath a mixed-use development that will house several county agencies along with retail stores and 200 apartments. The county will own… Keep reading…
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Should there be a new indoor pool in the Logan Circle area?
Instead of a parking garage, the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR)-owned land near 14th and S Streets, NW in DC could serve a recreational purpose. DPR seems to think so: its map of where the city needs pools seems to point right at this spot. Now the agency may have a chance to follow through, as its budget will likely include funding for a study and community engagement around… Keep reading…
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Top 6 reasons a parking garage near 14th and U is a bad idea
Some are pushing for a municipal parking garage on S Street, NW near 14th Street. To break even, such a garage would need to charge $3.51 to $4.33 per hour. What if it didn’t have to break even? Should taxpayers subsidize a parking garage here? Many cities do subsidize parking, often heavily. They often believe, rightly or wrongly, that unless public money contributes to… Keep reading…
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A municipal parking garage for 14th and U? It would not come cheap
A number of businesses and residents around 14th and U Streets are interested in trying to create a municipal parking garage in a large government-owned parcel on S Street. Is this a good use of the land? What if it cost $4 an hour, or required heavy subsidies from the DC budget? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New millennium
Millennials change DC; Robotic parking garages are coming; Verizon center billboards go live; Infrastructure charges lead to foreclosures; Fairfax planners nix Huntington TOD; Fairfax schools foresee cuts; Suburbs compete in bikability; LA debuts new data portal; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery parking requirements looser, but not enough
Montgomery County’s new zoning code will allow less parking in new developments in order to use land more efficiently and encourage alternatives to driving. However, the regulations still require parking in ways that will hinder the walkable urban places the county wants to build. For four years, the Planning Department has been revising its complicated, unwieldy… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to use public space
Fairfax against Tysons road; Hyattsville boosts public parking; Cracking down on loitering; Don’t congregate near Andrews; DC sees more Ward 6 voters; Arlington cab drivers protest; How New York recovered; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Different opinions
Approaches to cameras; Pennsylvania Ave. in danger, or not?; The at-large candidates talk parking; A brief history of bumpy tiles; Hill East in smaller bites; Montgomery planners are open; The train of Versailles; And…. Keep reading…
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Taxpayers foot bill for parking giveaway in Silver Spring
Montgomery County just spent millions to build a new parking garage in Silver Spring. Just one block away, another garage is so underused that the county wants to hand half of it over to the Discovery Channel for pennies on the dollar. The 592-space Kennett Street garage in south Silver Spring sits mostly empty. Montgomery’s Leggett administration has just proposed leasing… Keep reading…