Let's Talk About Parking Some More

Well that certainly was lively, wasn't it? Our post about the proposal to shoot SF with a Los-Angeles-gun by adding parking to the city (and subtracting everything else) attracted tons of comments, with some very well-put arguments on both sides of the issue. Time to channel that energy into Real Life, if you can bear to leave your wretched computer: SPUR is hosting a Transportation Committee meeting to discuss the initiative!

It's happening Monday, July 2, at SPUR's 312 Sutter Street headquarters from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Valet parking will be provided. Ha ha ha, just kidding!

Here's some things that SPUR, which generally advocates for intelligent, green, sustainable planning, has to say about the proposal:

... making it impossible to change parking regulations as part of a neighborhood planning effort ... amends parking requirements to increase the amount of parking required and permitted in new projects (especially downtown) ... regardless of impact to transit stops or any street trees ... limit the ability of the Planning Commission to impose urban design and affordability requirements ...

Yeesh. You can read the entire 60-page proposal on SPUR's site, or if you hate PDFs, on our Flickr stream. (Sorry the pages are all out of order -- we can't figure out how to reorder images in the Flickr uploadr.)