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Metered street parking, city lots and underground parking all suffice. With mixed use you get enough local traffic for restaurants who won’t use up the street
by sjg007 8y ago
Metered street parking, city lots and underground parking all suffice.
With mixed use you get enough local traffic for restaurants who won’t use up the street parking. Also see uber.
- jessaustin 8y agoI don't live there, but underground parking is almost never the right answer. It's just too expensive.
- sjg007 8y agoAll of the skyscrapers downtown have underground parking. You can make it level one if you want.
- jessaustin 8y agoSkyscrapers require extensive excavation already, because you don't want them to fall over. You might as well drop some parking in there, since it won't double the cost as it would for a strip mall. It still won't "suffice", because although you've added a couple hundred spaces (at the most) you've also added at least a couple thousand more people who need to get to and from the building.
- CalRobert 8y agoIf parking is valuable people will pay for it. If it's not valuable, no great loss then. Markets are pretty good at figuring this out. Though weirdly you can't rent a few parking spots for the (almost free) price they go for and live on them. Why is that?
- claydavisss 8y agoIn highrise towers this works, but makes no sense for a forty year old strip mall