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I thought these were some very eye opening stats: “ there are 1.97 cars per U.S. household, but in Des Moines, Iowa, there are 19 parking spaces per household.
by mapgrep 6y ago
I thought these were some very eye opening stats:
“ there are 1.97 cars per U.S. household, but in Des Moines, Iowa, there are 19 parking spaces per household. In Jackson, Wyoming, there are 27. “
The article goes on to discuss how parking lots are major opportunity sites for housing development, especially in suburbs. This worked well in downtown Oakland, where from ~1998-2008 there were 10k units built, many on former parking lots. This has the benefit of reducing gentrification impacts.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoJackson Wyoming gets a lot of tourists in the summer, probably way more than they have residents, and most come by car...
- bobthepanda 6y agoHoliday towns really should not be considered as lessons to take for good urbanism. Most tourist towns would have their desirable tourism qualities destroyed if they became a land of usually-empty condos like Benidorm.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoIf you look at Zillow, Jackson makes Seattle look cheap, you can get a smallish townhome for under a million, but everything else is in the multi million range.
- bobthepanda 6y agoI would imagine that, pre-COVID & WFH, the salary to housing ratio would probably be worse, though. Tourism jobs, particularly seasonal ones, don't pay all that well.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoA lot of rich retirees, and the only blue county in Wyoming. It might be an interesting place to WFH from, though that part of the country isn’t cheap, even crossing over into Montana things are unusually expensive.