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In the Local Blogosphere
Two items of note elsewhere today: On the BTA Blog they’re talking about how to request bike parking on-street (NOT on the sidewalk) in front of your business. An added benefit is that if you do this at a corner you improve intersection safety with better visibility. And at Blue Oregon they’re discussing a payment…
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Neighborhood Businesses Miss the Point on Parking
We’ve already heard that the Hawthorne district will reject Sam Adams call for metered parking. But now the Business Journal is reporting that some neighborhood businesses are thinking that what they need is MORE parking, in the form of parking structures. Do they really think that their customers will pay to park in a structure…
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Bunk Beds for Cars
The Daily Journal of Commerce is reporting on the first project in Portland that will employ parking “lifts”, a technology that lets you elevate one car, so you can park another one underneath. Here’s a site for a German vendor offering the same technology.
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Parking Meters = Gentrification?
Update: 10/18/06 According to yesterday’s O, Sam is not making much progress with the Hawthorne folks. Original Post: 10/6/06 Commissioner Sam has been advocating for parking meters in neighborhood business districts, including Hawthorne. He’s been using Pasadena’s historic shopping district as a case study, citing improvements in turnover driving more profitable business. Well, Willamette Week…
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Where You Put the Cars Helps
I’m in Vancouver, B.C. today with a group from Metro studying how they have made their regional centers work. They’ve achieved a lot more density than we have in their centers. Here’s a streetscape photo from one of their centers, a place roughly equivalent to Beaverton or Gresham. You can see that there’s a lot…