Better Downtown Parking – Increasing the supply and managing it better…
How This Report Will Help You
Improve Downtown Parking By Laurence
A. Alexander
Published by Downtown
Research and Development Center ISBN 0-915910-25-X
December 1, 1987
Not long ago most downtowners thought
"improving parking" meant getting more spaces, or getting free
parking, or hopefully getting both.
Today many downtowners -- and all downtown planners
and parking experts — know that there is far more to it than that. I have been involved in more than one
downtown where they had, in fact, excess parking, but business was still
bad. How does that happen? Bad locations, poor rate and hour structures,
careless maintenance and sloppy operations, long walking distances, hidden
parking and many other factors can cause it.
A really good parking system consists of
just the right number of parking spaces, strategically located relative to
destinations, set up to serve both short-and long-term parking, priced right
(not always free) and operated expertly.
This is not a cookbook showing how to get more
parking. That topic is addressed. But more important, this book is designed to
tell downtowners:
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How to think right about downtown
parking
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How to plan a total parking system
that meets all needs
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How to get the right amount of
parking; not too few spaces nor too
many (they are very expensive to develop and operate)
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How to define your downtown parking
goals and how to shape parking plans to reach them
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In addition, this book aims to alert downtowners to
essential new ideas and concepts such as efficient shared-parking, standards
for calculating demand, organizing free parking districts and other techniques,
providing super-peak parking for special events and more.
Another basic idea covered relates to making all
parking more productive -- a wonderful substitute for the staggering costs
of building more lots or structures. Parking system management, as it is often
called, does this. It should be
well-understood by all downtowners interested in CBD parking, business,
economic growth and service to the public.
Free parking, management, relationship to transit,
handling heavy employee parking loads, newest ideas and trends, metering or
not-metering -- even the "ideal" parking system are all covered. You should find this all extremely useful!
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