Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about parking

There could be homes behind this storefront at 2850 Welton Street — if the Denver City Council let them get built. Image: Google Maps

Denver’s Housing Shortage Is Getting Worse Thanks to City Council’s Parking Obsession

By David Sachs | Mar 21, 2017 | 7 Comments

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.

Community Planning and Development Warns Council Against Requiring More Parking

By David Sachs | Mar 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

If the Denver City Council continues on its current path, the city will require more parking where it was not required before, even as other cities throw out parking requirements altogether. Denver Community Planning and Development wants to stop the bleeding.

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.

These homes at Osage and Central were built under the small lot exemption. Image: Google Maps

Planning Board Reluctantly Approves City Council’s Attack on Walkability

By David Sachs | Feb 2, 2017 | 6 Comments

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.

Under the proposal, developers can build two to three stories without parking, but beyond that they will have to jump through hoops to create car-free development. Photo: Kent Kanouse/Flickr

While Other Cities Cut Parking Mandates, Denver’s Poised to Require More Parking

By David Sachs | Dec 15, 2016 | 5 Comments

Zoning would ensure a net gain in parking spaces if the City Council adopts it, but home builders will have some outs.

Why Parking Policy Matters for Equitable Neighborhoods: A Lesson for Denver

By David Sachs | Oct 18, 2016 | 7 Comments

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 […]

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