Parking Garage
Campaign for Sustainable Transportation - http://sustainabletransportationsc.org/
Alternatives to the Parking Garage - https://garagealternatives.org/garagealternatives.org/
An Honest Consultant, by Rick Longinotti Co-chair, Campaign for Sustainable Transportation (CFST)
Reimagine Santa Cruz - https://www.reimaginesantacruz.com/
Alternatives to the Parking Garage - https://garagealternatives.org/garagealternatives.org/
An Honest Consultant, by Rick Longinotti Co-chair, Campaign for Sustainable Transportation (CFST)
Reimagine Santa Cruz - https://www.reimaginesantacruz.com/
Parking Articles
Sheltering in Place Reveals How Much Parking Dominates Our Cities — and Lives
https://www.spur.org/news/2020-04-27/sheltering-place-reveals-how-much-parking-dominates-our-cities-and-lives
We can create a people-centric Santa Cruz and still have enough parking if we get away from car-centric assumptions about what makes a downtown thrive. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/24/every-city-should-abolish-its-minimum-parking-requirements-has-yours?
Does more parking bring more business? Downtown Santa Cruz seems to have it all wrong. For more visitors, create a more vibrant downtown, with a Commons and permanent Farmers Market on lot 4. https://blog.locallogic.co/does-more-parking-bring-more-business/
New housing downtown, including affordable housing, likely will require less parking than City staff assume! Let's think carefully before setting in motion an $87 million garage construction project [and that is not counting a library or any affordable housing]. See this interesting article from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/realestate/parking-so-prime-the-car-is-optional.html
A cautionary tale from another college town. Scroll down to parking garage discussion and ask yourself, why should the City of Santa Cruz build a parking garage where the Farmers' Market is? https://transportationjusticeblog.com/2019/11/10/bad-transportation-planning-in-a-time-of-crisis-bloomington-in/
Sheltering in Place Reveals How Much Parking Dominates Our Cities — and Lives
https://www.spur.org/news/2020-04-27/sheltering-place-reveals-how-much-parking-dominates-our-cities-and-lives
We can create a people-centric Santa Cruz and still have enough parking if we get away from car-centric assumptions about what makes a downtown thrive. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/24/every-city-should-abolish-its-minimum-parking-requirements-has-yours?
Does more parking bring more business? Downtown Santa Cruz seems to have it all wrong. For more visitors, create a more vibrant downtown, with a Commons and permanent Farmers Market on lot 4. https://blog.locallogic.co/does-more-parking-bring-more-business/
New housing downtown, including affordable housing, likely will require less parking than City staff assume! Let's think carefully before setting in motion an $87 million garage construction project [and that is not counting a library or any affordable housing]. See this interesting article from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/realestate/parking-so-prime-the-car-is-optional.html
A cautionary tale from another college town. Scroll down to parking garage discussion and ask yourself, why should the City of Santa Cruz build a parking garage where the Farmers' Market is? https://transportationjusticeblog.com/2019/11/10/bad-transportation-planning-in-a-time-of-crisis-bloomington-in/