Category: Parking

  • Updated: Who Shall We Discriminate Against?

    Update 6/10/13: An interesting hybrid of my ‘vest the current residents’ notion and the ‘auction’ notion from Matt Yglesias on Slate: distribute permits to current residents (one time) and then let them trade on a market. Original post 5/10/13: In allocating parking… The vote by City Council last month to re-institute parking minimums for larger…

  • Liberals, Markets and Parking

    On Wednesday, as City Council voted to impose parking minimums on larger residential buildings on transit corridors, Commissioner Fritz made a comment to the effect that she had never heard so many Portland liberals argue for using markets. I was one of the folks arguing for leveraging market forces. In the prior week’s hearing, Commissioner…

  • Report: Portland City Council to vote on parking minimums

    According to Elliot Njus of The Oregonian, the Portland City Council is expected to vote next week to impose minimum parking requirements on new apartment construction, but will not move to block a controversial 80-unit project already under construction at SE 37th and Division. According to the report, the following minimums will be voted on:…

  • Voting Against the Grain on Parking

    Yesterday, the Planning and Sustainability Commission voted to recommend new minimum parking requirements for multi-family buildings in transit corridors, with one dissenting vote. The immediate question on Twitter: “was @chrissmithus the dissenting vote?” I was not! It was my colleague Katherine Schultz, an architect who has experience actually building stuff, and knows what the impacts…

  • Ada Louise Huxtable – Prescient

    Ada Louise Huxtable – for many years the architecture critic for the New York Times – passed away recently, and over at Portland Architecture local history expert Dan Hanekow reviews some of her thoughts on Portland. I would be remiss if I didn’t call out this 1970 quote: “Some day, some American city will discover…