Homes that would be getting built are not getting built -- and given the current uncertainty they may never get built. For a city facing a housing shortage, this is bad news.
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.
The Denver Planning Board voted for an amendment to the zoning code Wednesday that would raise housing costs and feed the city's car addiction by forcing home builders to build parking where it was not required before.
What do parking spots have to do with equity? A lot. I was at last week’s Rail~Volution conference in the Bay Area, where “building livable communities with transit” was the topic of conversation. It was striking how some of the country’s leading urban planners talked about transit, not in terms of buses and trains, but […]