Matt Yglesias has been on a roll lately with the urbanism posts, all of which have a heavy "market urbanist" slant, but it's this post about parking reform in/around Boston (riffing off of this Boston Globe article) that seals the deal for me: Regulators pushing developers to build less parking … [Read more...]
Midnight parking round-up
1. Donald Shoup makes up for last week with an interesting piece on how America's tax structure biases employers towards providing parking for their employees, similar to how untaxed employer-provided healthcare shapes that industry.2. Back in August Randal O'Toole asked for proof that minimum … [Read more...]
Hell freezes over, or: the one in which I agree with Randal O’Toole’s argument over Shoup’s
I never thought the day would come, but I actually find myself taking issue with Donald Shoup's recent criticism of the Cato Institute (which Randal O'Toole works for) and its own DC headquarters' employee parking program. While I agree with Shoup's more general critique of Cato's stance on … [Read more...]
New York City links
There are a couple of NYC-related links that I've been saving up, so here they are:1. Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indiannapolis and NYC's new deputy mayor, appears to be interested in privatizing New York City's parking meters in order to balance the city's budget. We're more interested … [Read more...]
Zoning blighted Manhattanville before Columbia did
Something that always annoyed me about discussions of the state of Manhattanville and Columbia's blight study is the fact that they usually leave out restrictive zoning as the original sin. We're certainly no fans of eminent domain or Columbia's plans for the West Harlem neighborhood, and while … [Read more...]
Enforced price ceilings on private parking lots
by Stephen SmithI wrote last week about a tendency in developing Asian countries to emulate the most anti-market Western planning policies, but I didn't realize it was this bad. Paul Barter writes: Would it surprise you to know that some cities control the price of parking even for … [Read more...]
Food deserts and zoning
by Stephen SmithThe other day I put up a post detailing the restrictions that small-scale restaurants and food carts face, but I should mention that grocery stores and supermarkets also face similar restrictions. Like restrictions on restaurants, they end hitting poor, urban, black … [Read more...]
Toronto’s new zoning code
by Stephen SmithMatt Yglesias points to an article about Toronto's new zoning code. The story is short on details, although the lowering of parking minimums near transit and overall simplification of the code seem like appealing features to Market Urbanists. I did, however, find a blog post … [Read more...]