Very few poor people drive to work downtown
The Portland city council is considering subsidizing downtown car trips because some downtown commuters are poor.
Parking
Commissioner Fritz questions city plan to legalize tiny homes near property lines, a perk currently given to auto storage
For decades, there’s been one way to build a 15-foot-tall structure up to the edge property lines: put a car in it.
Portland may require developers to offer residents, employees $600 for biking or transit
Got a new job in Portland? Have a new bike.
As Portland’s housing shortage boils over, its mandatory car-housing policy seems safe
A particular type of expensive machine can almost always be stored for free but every other object in society is expected to pay market rate.
Task force likes proposal to restrict main-street residents’ curbside parking rights
The goal is to lead developers of buildings on commercial corridors to include more on-site auto parking in their new buildings.
City parking reform proposal would limit apartment dwellers’ access to parking permits
The city described the proposal as “preliminary.”
Large crowd at City-sponsored symposium learns evils of free parking
Parking is too expensive and too valuable for us to conceal its costs inside the price of everything else we buy, he said.
Eastmoreland residents organize against wider bike lanes that would remove parking
(One Year Ago Today) – The four blocks would be a key link in the planned 20s Bikeway.
What would bike-friendly auto parking reform look like? Seven ideas
A bike-friendly parking policy would at least prevent Portland from creating future battlefields for itself.
Portland parking reformers puzzle over how to value bike lanes
Parking wonks have a formula for the right price of auto parking. But what if a street needs something else more?
Milwaukie approves proposal to demolish downtown buildings for parking lot
Here’s an odd story forwarded to us this afternoon.
Parking and planning: Lessons from a map of Portland land value
The above map is a revelation.