Tomorrow night Shoreline Mayor Chris Roberts is set to put forward an amendment that would eliminate parking mandates citywide. Near transit, no parking study would be required. Shoreline city staff do not like this amendment. - ThreadSky

typewriteralley.bsky.social • 73 days ago

Tomorrow night Shoreline Mayor Chris Roberts is set to put forward an amendment that would eliminate parking mandates citywide. Near transit, no parking study would be required.

Shoreline city staff do not like this amendment.

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olivermoffat.bsky.social•73 days ago

The rumor in town is that the city attorney is the one advising against making this change... because lawsuits or something or other

kasota.bsky.social•73 days ago

Don't let these conservative city attorneys hand wave about lawsuits. It's America - anyone can sue anyone if they have the filing fee. They need to actually explain what the legal outcome would be.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•73 days ago

That's what an executive session is for.

pushtheneedle.bsky.social•73 days ago

man planners will shake out any politician to blame wont they?

andrewmb.bsky.social•71 days ago

I can see it being more that it was walked on by Council at the end of the process after a whole bunch of public engagement took place that didn't include it, when zoning code rewrites could do the same thing.

tonyjordan.bsky.social•73 days ago

Staff should be asked to read Donald Shoup’s paper “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements” and prepare a memo explaining why theirs are different.

https://parkingreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/APA_-Practice_Parking_Reform_February-2020.pdf

jamin.app•72 days ago

Bellingham votes tomorrow too! Staff, on the other hand, do like it.

thealexholden.bsky.social•73 days ago

Just one more study bro, just one more

donnell.bsky.social•72 days ago

We eliminated parking minimums in Ann Arbor, which is great—it means parking will still be built. But the real secret unlock code is parking maximums!

buildhomes.bsky.social•73 days ago

‘Should’ in this sense is not legally blinding at all, right? They don’t have to actually study it

typewriteralley.bsky.social•73 days ago

On the other hand, the Sierra Club, Puget Sound Sage, Habitat for Humanity, and SEIU 775 do like this amendment.

esmathteacher.bsky.social•71 days ago

Can someone explain what this means? I’m not understanding what a parking requirement actually is or why would or would not want one?

typewriteralley.bsky.social•71 days ago

https://parkingreform.org/what-is-parking-reform/

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