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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). And with that I had to laugh.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that Atlanta, BART, and Miami had problems of their own--certain suburban counties refused to participate for both Atlanta and BART, and Miami's route planners designed the system to serve areas they wanted to develop, rather than to ensure that service was also provided to key activity centers. That could have been accomplished already.