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Eliminating parking requirements within 1/2 mile of transit proposed by Mayor

November 11, 2018 By Bill Adams Leave a Comment

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/11/09/mayor-proposes-allowing-some-housing-projects-with-no-parking-spaces/

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Mayor KF has proposed dropping a regulation that has long been hypocritically exempt from supply-side economics. That is the regulation requiring new residential construction to provide off-street parking. [Read more…] about Eliminating parking requirements within 1/2 mile of transit proposed by Mayor

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: parking

Parking Management: San Diego Style (Part Two)

April 23, 2016 By Bill Keller 1 Comment

parking receipt San Francisco has 23,000 metered parking spaces and sets prices using complex “demand-responsive rate adjustments.”  Around SF City Hall, for example, hourly rates vary by time of day and block by block – up to $5.25 midweek and as low as $.25 on weekends.  In San Diego, despite the growing population and a tightening supply, many locals still expect free parking – especially in beach communities.  San Diego currently has about 5,700 metered spaces mostly charging a top rate of $1.25 per hour.  Nearly all the metered spaces are in Uptown and Downtown where parking is a hot topic at neighborhood meetings. [Read more…] about Parking Management: San Diego Style (Part Two)

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning, San Diego, Transportation Tagged With: dynamic pricing, parking

Demo for Parking – They’re at it Again in Downtown San Diego!

July 11, 2015 By Bill Adams 2 Comments

8th Ave. San Diego - buildings threatened by demolition for surface parking.
8th Ave. San Diego – buildings threatened by demolition for surface parking.

Despite community plan policies disfavoring surface parking and encouraging the retention of fine grain development, the adaptive reuse of existing structures, and encouraging walking, biking, and public transit use, Civic San Diego staff is recommending the approval of the expansion of a surface parking lot on the block bounded by F St. and 7th and 8th Ave.  Additionally, they are making this recommendation despite the fact that it will require the demolition of several viable and recently occupied commercial buildings.  The sole reason offered for recommending approval of demolition for a surface parking is that there is a demand for parking  – as if such parking demand was unknown when the Downtown Community Plan was adopted.  This recommendation essentially casts aside the community plan goals while at the same time reciting them in the report making the recommendation.

[Read more…] about Demo for Parking – They’re at it Again in Downtown San Diego!

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Notices, Planning, San Diego Tagged With: adaptive reuse, demolition, parking, Preservation

Parking lot no more at Fifth & J in the Gaslamp Quarter?

October 7, 2014 By Bill Adams Leave a Comment

5th & J Gaslamp Quarter San Diego - former site of Gran Havana Cafe and Cigars and two historic buildingsAn invitation was emailed last week for a ground breaking ceremony to be held on Wednesday Oct. 8, at 10:00 AM for a new Pendry Hotel to replace the parking lot of 5th & J.  The invitation was ground breaking in more than one way.  This parking lot was the site of one of the most egregious abuses of eminent domain under the California Community Redevelopment Act, and became one of the poster-children of the property rights – anti-eminent domain movement.  Many believe it also played a role in Governor Brown’s repeal of the redevelopment law.   [Read more…] about Parking lot no more at Fifth & J in the Gaslamp Quarter?

Filed Under: Historic, News, Projects, San Diego Tagged With: CCDC, Civic San Diego, condemnation, eminent domain, Historic, parking, Preservation, property rights, smart growth, urbanism

Demolition of Historic Building for Parking Lot Continues

March 18, 2013 By Bill Adams Leave a Comment

741 F St. DemoSan Diego, 741 F Street, demolition continues on this historic warehouse to make room for surface parking. [Read more…] about Demolition of Historic Building for Parking Lot Continues

Filed Under: Historic, News, Planning, San Diego Tagged With: CCDC, Civic San Diego, demolition, parking, Slayen

San Diego’s Parking Lot Blight; Requiem for Redevelopment

January 18, 2013 By Bill Adams 8 Comments

741 F Street Building slated for demolition for parkingAn ugly side of redevelopment (RIP), a side rarely mentioned in all the self-laudatory hype, is the demolition.  Too often its of historic structures, or structures that create the street-level fabric necessary for a walkable city.  Too often its not even for a new structure but for surface parking, [Read more…] about San Diego’s Parking Lot Blight; Requiem for Redevelopment

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Historic, Planning, Revitalization, San Diego Tagged With: adaptive reuse, CCDC, Civic San Diego, huxtable, parking, Preservation, transit oriented, urbanist, walkable

Demolition and Paving Downtown for Surface Parking Continues

August 26, 2012 By Bill Adams 4 Comments

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International MaleSan Diego – “They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half to see ’em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot” – Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970. [Read more…] about Demolition and Paving Downtown for Surface Parking Continues

Filed Under: News, Planning, Projects, San Diego Tagged With: auto-oriented, Behind the Post Office, Brawn, CCDC, Civic San Diego, F Street, Green Circle, International Male, parking, pedestrian, Slayen, Undergear, Walsh & Chacon

Part II – The invisible city: re-imagining Paradise

March 14, 2012 By Matt Kuser 3 Comments

New Chargers Stadium Proposal, de Bartolo + Rimanic Design Studio

San Diego – This week, Pauly de Bartolo and Ivan Rimanic, founding principals of de Bartolo + Rimanic Design Studio, sit down to re-imagine Paradise.

A precious gift of our open society is the free exchange of ideas.  With the help of designers, ideas become imagery.  With political will and financial impetus, imagery becomes reality. [Read more…] about Part II – The invisible city: re-imagining Paradise

Filed Under: Design, Interview, News, San Diego, Uncategorized Tagged With: Balboa Park, Chargers Stadium, de Bartolo + Rimanic, East Village, Jorn Utzon, Outdoor Amphitheater, parking, Qualcomm Stadium, Sydney Opera House, Urban Park

“Nobody Goes There Anymore, Its’ Too Crowded” – Yogi Berra

June 13, 2011 By Jimmy Parker Leave a Comment

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Dining in the Gaslamp Quarter
Photo by Michael Trimble

As humans we are always quick to rationalize or dismiss things that we no longer value. After all, the world doesn’t rotate the sun, it centers on us. We really can’t see the world through other eyes, so we make our judgments based on the most respected and qualified person we know, and it is us. [Read more…] about “Nobody Goes There Anymore, Its’ Too Crowded” – Yogi Berra

Filed Under: Culture, Planning Tagged With: Gaslamp Quarter, parking, Planning, redevelopment, restaurant, retail

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