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Early Access: Should Cities Get Rid of On-Street Parking?
🕑 Added 2022-11-24 04:15:17 +0000 UTCHappy Thanksgiving everyone! I am incredibly grateful for all of your support this past year. Your contributions have truly made these videos better. I often have to do a cost/benefit calculation when producing a video. For example: Will it be worth the editing costs to produce a more detailed graphic? Your support allows me to say yes much more often than I would otherwise.
Your support allowed me to hire students to do the little parking study featured in this video. This was a really fun experience. We really did count parked cars for twelve hours straight. We did it right outside of the City's planning department, and we had plenty of visitors. One detail I didn't specifically address in this video was that there were two City-owned parking garages in the study area. It's another argument that this particular area doesn't need a ton of street parking.
Thanks again and enjoy the holiday season. I owe all of you an annual report before January, so look out for that soon!
-Dave
Comments
Joe Gorndt
I'm curious, did you track the number of disabled placards or plates the vehicles in your study had? As far as I know, people with those certifications can park in time-limited spots for as long as they'd like in California. That's the only way I can make sense of the person who parked for twelve hours in a half hour spot, unless SLO just doesn't issue tickets for parking at all in that neighborhood, unless they have some other exemption. Also, with regard to what you said about free parking: I live in San Francisco, where it seems the vast majority of houses seem to store their cars on the street and fill their garages with fondue pots they bought twenty years ago and never used, or Christmas trees, or Halloween decorations, or whatever else, and park their cars on the street because they have resident permits. Back when I rented a room in a house, I had wondered what would happen if I had applied for a permit to just use it to store shit I didn't have room for. I would assume the permit would be denied, and then my stuff would have been thrown out and I would have been cited.
