Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Jolon Clark

Before Denver moves forward with a less car-centric city, it should make more room for car storage, according to City Council logic. Photo: David Sachs

Today’s Your Chance to Speak Up for Affordability and Against Parking Mandates

By David Sachs | May 1, 2017 | 3 Comments

We'll find out tonight if the City Council will make housing more attainable and neighborhoods more walkable, or if elected officials will make free, on-street car storage even more plentiful.

Neighbors objected to car-free development on this site at 16th and Humboldt, because clearly what this block needs is more space for car storage, not housing. Image: Google Maps

Jolon Clark Is Letting the Parking Lobby Dictate Denver’s Housing Policy

By David Sachs | Apr 4, 2017 | 15 Comments

The Denver City Council voted 7 to 6 Monday to advance a law that will raise housing costs by compelling the construction of parking spaces on small lots. The zoning amendment from Council Member Jolon Clark will require parking where none was required before, stifling walkable development and generating more car traffic. With that vote, the […]

The current parking exemption on small lots (left column), would yield much more housing than the parking requirements going to vote in tonight (right column). YIMBY Denver created this chart based on data from Community Planning and Development.

Speak Out Today Against Jolon Clark’s Bid to Make Denver Less Affordable

By David Sachs | Apr 3, 2017 | 3 Comments

More parking requirements are coming. The only question now is, how far in the wrong direction will City Council steer this ship?

The horror of housing without parking was too much for residents of City Park West to bear, and now they're shaping Denver development policy. (This is not a parking spot, by the way, it’s a bike lane). Photo: David Sachs

City Council Caves to the Anti-Housing, Pro-Parking Crowd Again

By David Sachs | Feb 23, 2017 | 3 Comments

It's 2017. The question of whether cities should require developers to build parking has been settled. They should not. But here in Denver, the City Council is moving in the opposite direction.

Council President Albus Brooks Calls for New Source of Transportation Money

By David Sachs | Sep 28, 2016 | 28 Comments

If funding for sidewalks and bike lanes continues at the rate laid out in Mayor Michael Hancock’s 2017 budget, Denver won’t see a fully built-out bike network for many decades, and won’t have a complete sidewalk network for nearly two centuries. Hancock proposed a paltry $2.2 million for Denver Moves, the city’s blueprint for a […]

Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network

By David Sachs | Aug 11, 2016 | 10 Comments

Yesterday the City Council finally dug into the question of how to complete Denver’s patchwork sidewalk network. Sidewalk construction and maintenance currently falls entirely on individual property owners. It’s a policy designed to fail, with many people unable to afford sidewalks, and the quality of the pedestrian environment suffering as a result. People pay with their lives. […]

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