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Requiring developers to build off-street parking is expensive. That’s the key takeaway from a City of Portland study on the impacts of parking requirements on housing affordability. (This study was linked to in a previous post) To illustrate the point, the city looks at a hypothetical development and considers a number of different scenarios for Continue reading Parking tradeoffs – on-street and off-street DC skyline. CC image from James Calder Continuing on the discussion of DC’s height limit (and potential changes to it), I wanted to take note of a few more articles on the subject. George Mason law professor David Schleicher (he of land-use law and procedure fame) asks height limit proponents six basic questions, all of which Continue reading DC height limit trade-offs, part 2 The Cairo. CC image from NCinDC. Following up on some of the trade-offs mentioned at the end of the previous post on DC’s height act. In the discussion of Kaid Benfield’s piece supporting DC’s height limit, several comments are worth highlighting. First, Payton Chung notes the need to discuss more than just supply, but to also Continue reading Height limit trade-offs Bethesda Row – note that you don't even see how tall the buildings are – CC image from faceless b Kaid Benfield’s excellent blog had a post last week on the need for better urban design and management of the public realm in our new, dense infill development. And while I certainly agree with the Continue reading On density and design tradeoffs |
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