I'm on firm ground when I say that downtown Austin already has plenty of parking. In 2000, 42% of all downtown garage spaces sat empty during peak hours .
That developers continue to build more parking than they need for their own developments suggests the parking market is broken.
Or that demand for self-contained parking is driven by lenders and tenants. A developer has no incentive to build expensive structured parking it does not...
The state capitol complex
Two years ago, the Texas Facilities Commission proposed consolidating thousands of state employees in a suburban "town center" east of Austin. The goal was threefold: (1) the...
Overparked
There are many reasons "too much" parking is bad for a downtown: Parking raises the cost of new development, which means less of it. This may be no big deal for a city with a built-out...
Parking census
At any downtown Austin conference, particularly a conference attended by out-of-towners, one invariably hears complaints about the lack of parking. Downtown retailers complain, too. As...
Keep government employees downtown
The Texas Facilities Commission is proposing a massive office complex somewhere along Texas 130 east of town. It envisions a model "company town" that would direct growth to the city's...
Seriously, don't blame last weekend's parking fiasco on...
I'm frequently critical of Austin's neighborhood associations, but even I don't blame the Bouldin Creek neighborhood for last weekend's parking fiasco, when simultaneous events (Carmen at the...
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