What To Do When The Client Says They Need More Parking
An uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
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Why Parking Minimums Are Bad.
We can build cities for people, or we can build them for cars. Eliminating parking minimums, which require that off-street parking spaces be included in every development project, is a great way to move us toward the former after decades of moving toward the latter.
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Ann Arbor Axes Parking Minimums. In Michigan, That’s Huge.
The city of Ann Arbor officially abolished parking minimums yesterday with the passage of an amendment to the city’s development
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Why Do Airports Not Want Us To Have Nice Things?
Detroit’s airport has historically had some problems with accessibility, especially to transit. This is a problem, because of the airport’s reliance on parking revenues. But there are some options!
Read MoreDetroit Park City No. 4 – Corktown and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Low Density
As Detroit’s hottest neighborhood, at least according to Buzzfeed, Corktown has to live up to a high standard. It’s got
Read MoreDetroit Park City: Unlearning the Motor City’s Parking Culture
At a recent MDOT planning meeting hosted at the illustrious Shed 5 in Detroit’s Eastern Market, I again found myself thinking,
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