Your voiceover is so much better, good job! I made a comment a few weeks which you reacted to, and so happy to see you improve. It is still quite silent tho, i would really appreciate not having to adjust volume when startinh and ending your video :)
Sugar Hill apartments in Midtown Detroit is an example of a brand new mixed use development that has a modest parking garage tucked away in the back. It creates a new pedestrian ally with existing nearby buildings.
I wish cities (in the US especially) would take up the parking themselves and remove the minimum parking requirements from businesses. This would give more control for how parking is used(ie. shared parking), easier to scale into parking structures and paid parking as necessary. And as you mentioned, centrally locating these parking structures would ideally also give more room for building more walkable/bikeable/transit forward designs(take a suburban mall's sea of surface parking that is a journey of walking). I also like the idea of surface level mixed-use, I saw one built in my hometown recently and it's definitely a nice step forward over typical homogenous space that doesn't contribute to the streetscape like other nearby parking structures. It is funny that your example of suburbs was in Utah along the Wasatch Front. We are a geographically limited area that is rapidly growing...and people are building the least efficient housing and transportation types that is only exacerbating the limited space(and thus increasing costs dramatically). Single family homes and car centric designs are killing our area and the prices of housing reflect it. People continue to fight medium density and then people get confused why 5 over 1s are getting built, fight transit and quality bike lanes and then are confused by the traffic.
Encouraging motorcycle and Moped use is a great way to optimize parking usage. You can park 10 motorcycles on the street in the space of one full size suv. Plenty of single passenger trips in warmer parts of the US should be done on a 2 wheeler but are done in massive SUVs
A thought I had was in the us: remove manditory parking minimums and ban surface level parking in all new developments (has to be either underground or raised with exceptions obviously)
Reduce parking availability until people start making smarter choices, such as living in more dense areas and taking public transit. The entitlement of people who demand a store provide free storage for their ton of steel or else they won't shop there is maddening.
CONVOY MENTION 💃🧋(tip: parking on the side streets is the way to go) Cool to see an SD local also interested in improving the area! I'm really hoping we can increase safe bike infrastructure and turn car parking into more people-centric places soon. I don't drive and getting around feels tedious, noxious, and too car-focused. It's not good for the environment or the general population at all
Your voiceover is so much better, good job! I made a comment a few weeks which you reacted to, and so happy to see you improve. It is still quite silent tho, i would really appreciate not having to adjust volume when startinh and ending your video :)
Sugar Hill apartments in Midtown Detroit is an example of a brand new mixed use development that has a modest parking garage tucked away in the back.
It creates a new pedestrian ally with existing nearby buildings.
I wish cities (in the US especially) would take up the parking themselves and remove the minimum parking requirements from businesses. This would give more control for how parking is used(ie. shared parking), easier to scale into parking structures and paid parking as necessary. And as you mentioned, centrally locating these parking structures would ideally also give more room for building more walkable/bikeable/transit forward designs(take a suburban mall's sea of surface parking that is a journey of walking). I also like the idea of surface level mixed-use, I saw one built in my hometown recently and it's definitely a nice step forward over typical homogenous space that doesn't contribute to the streetscape like other nearby parking structures.
It is funny that your example of suburbs was in Utah along the Wasatch Front. We are a geographically limited area that is rapidly growing...and people are building the least efficient housing and transportation types that is only exacerbating the limited space(and thus increasing costs dramatically). Single family homes and car centric designs are killing our area and the prices of housing reflect it. People continue to fight medium density and then people get confused why 5 over 1s are getting built, fight transit and quality bike lanes and then are confused by the traffic.
Encouraging motorcycle and Moped use is a great way to optimize parking usage. You can park 10 motorcycles on the street in the space of one full size suv. Plenty of single passenger trips in warmer parts of the US should be done on a 2 wheeler but are done in massive SUVs
Nice video. While we have private cars that only work around an hour a day vehicle storage is always going to be a problem.
I never even thought about having an apartment and office share their parking space!
Time Stamps
0:50 Shared Parking
2:30 Mixed Used Parking
4:15 Underground Parking
7:20 Design For Disassembly
8:15 Vertical Parking
Good content and relevant!
Interesting ideas and good research. Well done!
A thought I had was in the us: remove manditory parking minimums and ban surface level parking in all new developments (has to be either underground or raised with exceptions obviously)
Reduce parking availability until people start making smarter choices, such as living in more dense areas and taking public transit. The entitlement of people who demand a store provide free storage for their ton of steel or else they won't shop there is maddening.
CONVOY MENTION 💃🧋(tip: parking on the side streets is the way to go)
Cool to see an SD local also interested in improving the area! I'm really hoping we can increase safe bike infrastructure and turn car parking into more people-centric places soon. I don't drive and getting around feels tedious, noxious, and too car-focused. It's not good for the environment or the general population at all