2020 Portland Candidate Responses
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by Brad Baker
4y ago
Questionnaire Prioritization of our streets Portland has limited street space and is unlikely to want to expand our roads. Streets are currently designed to give the most space to cars and to the storage of cars. Do you support repurposing on-street parking in order to give more space for bus-only lanes or bike lanes? Lengthy public processes can delay projects to provide transit priority or street safety improvements when parking is involved. Do you support an expedited process to allocate parking space to transit and other modes when the data show it will benefit more Portlanders or lead to ..read more
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Portland’s 2020 City Hall Candidates Get Graded On Parking Policy
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by Brad Baker
4y ago
Background Portlanders for Parking Reform created a candidate questionnaire for the upcoming May primary election to help voters understand which candidates are thinking critically about parking policy. PPR sent this questionnaire to all mayoral and city council candidates. The themes of the questions were prioritization of our streets, off-street parking, on-street parking management, and equity. We took the candidate responses, anonymized them to remove any potential bias, and had board members of the Parking Reform Network give candidates a grade on how well their answers align with the bes ..read more
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More housing and no required parking. It’s time to pass the Residential Infill Project!
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
Shoupistas, now is our moment in Portland. It’s time to eliminate the remaining residential parking requirements in Portland. The dragon is weak and can be slayed, but we’ll all need to rise to the occasion and support the Residential Infill Project to get the job done. It’s hard to fit four or more homes and four or more cars on a lot. And even if you can, you won’t have room for much of anything else. Fortunately, the Residential Infill Project has shaped up to be an aggressive housing policy package that will lead to less displacement citywide, neighborhoods with more economic and racial di ..read more
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Proposal would effectively eliminate minimum parking requirements in Portland
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
Mayor Ted Wheeler has proposed an amendment to the city’s Better Housing by Design project that would effectively eliminate the remaining parking requirements for new multi-family housing in Portland. Existing waivers only apply to buildings within an arbitrary distance of frequent service transit, requiring some projects just a few steps away from the boundary to build parking. Tell City Council by Wednesday, November 6th (2PM) that you support proposed Amendment 2 for Better Housing by Design. This amendment will waive parking requirements for any project that includes regulated affordable h ..read more
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Better chances for affordable housing? Not if parking is required.
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
Action Alert: send in testimony by 3pm, Wednesday 10/2/2019 to cctestimony@portlandoregon.gov. Let’s increase the odds of more affordable housing by eliminating arbitrary parking requirements in Better Housing by Design. Quick Update: Sightline Institute has published an article this morning which delves deeper into the City of Portland’s scenario modeling for Better Housing by Design and explains why parking requirements will be so detrimental to more affordable housing. Check it out! On Wednesday afternoon (October 2nd, 2019) Portland’s city council will hold a hearing on Better Housing ..read more
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Changes coming to NW Portland Parking
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
A few changes are coming to NW Portland parking. PBOT is hosting an online open house and an in-real-life Open House on Tuesday, May 7. Zone M Parking in NW Portland For the last 7 years, the NW Parking Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) has been trying to manage 5,264 of the most desired parking spots in the city for the greatest good. But, despite their efforts, 7,600 permits were sold in 2018 for those 5,264 spaces, a 614 permit increase over 2017. The permit program is still one of the most advanced in the nation. The permits, while still 1/10 the cost of off-street parking, are sold for ..read more
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You’ve got a rare opportunity to tell the IRS to tax parking fairly, seize it.
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
Opportunities to influence parking reforms on a national level are very, very rare, but one such window is open until 11:59PM EST on February 22nd and a bunch of smart comments could have a big impact. As reported by Michael Andersen from Sightline Institute, Trump put a huge tax on parking lots, maybe by mistake, and the IRS is seeking guidance on the extremely important details of a seemingly esoteric change to the way our tax law subsidizes commuter parking benefits. Basically, corporations will now have to pay taxes on “commuting benefits” as if they were corporate profits. It’s a weird la ..read more
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Democracy and Parking: High Hurdles for Permits in Portland
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
Last month a majority of voters in a Northeast Portland neighborhood supported a new parking permit zone, but because of ridiculous rules from 1981, the City of Portland says the proposal failed.  The permit election, in the Eliot Neighborhood, had a 53% turnout. For comparison, the 2018 primary, in which voters renewed the Children’s Levy and re-elected Commissioner Nick Fish, had a turnout of roughly 30%. If City Commissioners and the Mayor had to meet the same electoral thresholds as a new parking permit zone, council might have a different makeup. Of the ballots returned in Eliot, 54 ..read more
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Weaponized parking requirements
Portlanders for Parking Reform – Better Parking Policy For The City of Roses
by TonyJ
4y ago
When neighbors want to stop a project or close a business, parking is a convenient complaint. (Catapult photo by Flickr:shankaronline) Neighbors of a long-standing “community healing center” in Northeast Portland may succeed in forcing the business to shut its doors due to a lack of dedicated parking. Occupancy studies indicate the impact from The Everett House on neighborhood streets doesn’t justify a parking lot, but a reliance on ill-fitting parking generation and demand ratios provides cover for regulators to side with complaining residents. The Everett House is actually a complex of sever ..read more
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