We all can introduce caucus resolutions to help stop urban sprawl by supporting public transit over more automobile infrastructure.--Tom

 

 

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From: Irvin Dawid <[log in to unmask]>
To: CONS-TRANS-CHAIRS-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, Jul 13, 2015 11:59 pm
Subject: Minneapolis makes parking history: Minimums are history for eligible developments



This is a huge blow to auto-oriented development!
A huge win for sustainability, for reducing transportation GHGs, and increasing housing affordability, 



Minneapolis is the first city that has gone this far to my knowledge - it's huge!
Minneapolis Ends Parking Requirements for Transit-Adjacent Developments

Minneapolis took a large leap forward last week by approving a plan that would reduce parking requirements for transit-adjacent developments in a huge swath of the city—not just downtown.

15 hours ago   Minneapolis Star Tribune 
The measure tackles the city's typical one-spot per-unit parking requirement for new developments by allowing significant reductions near high-frequency transit. ...the final language allows buildings with 50 or fewer units to be built without parking outside of downtown -- where there are already no parking minimums -- if they are a quarter-mile away from transit with 15-minute frequencies.


 “This change will allow developers to stop designing their projects around parking. Too often we see a whole building designed around a concrete structure to store cars, instead of the people who are living in the building, or walking buy it, or living nearby," City Council member Lisa Bender, the ordinance's sponsor, said. 


 Council Member Elizabeth Glidden said the parking change is already have an impact on her ward, where developers have proposed a part-affordable housing project on 36th and Nicollet that would not have been possible without the relaxed requirements.
 
Irvin Dawid












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