Like Barb, I live in a critical parking area, particularly when the snow parking ban goes into effect. It might be better if the city were to require off street parking of any new builds. I know I'm frantically putting together the scratch to make off-street parking just for my own peace of mind, bugger the city. If the city is saying that those already in situ have to engineer space on their lots for parking, that will be virtually impossible to comply with in too many instances. It kinda sounds like a different "reason" to take down older housing. Only half my household of four adults has a car, one of the two with a car uses it only when he has too, prefering his bicycle or skates, the other two are in the bike and bus crowd. Personally, I love driving the bus, but I don't much care for passengering any more. I got really spoiled with cars from living in small college towns during my yout'. I can't imagine how we could make space for four cars within walking distance of the house. WizardMarks, Central
Barbara Lickness wrote: > I agree with Dan Niziolek on this one. Currently, zoning considers > 5,000 square feet a buildable lot. If they are going to lower that to > whatever some of these odd shaped lots are, then it doesn't make sense > to require a garage. > > I live on a block with 6 21/2 story walk-ups. There are no alleys > and there are houses that have no garages. These people compete for > parking space on the street with all the apartment dwellers. Everyone > seems to find a place to park (except of course when the city > implements the Winter one side of the street parking). To date, I > have heard of no neighbors fighting with one another over parking on > the street. > > Most of the time these odd sized lots are on a side street or corner. > They most likely have houses on either side. The only option for > these type of lots would be to dig down under with a tuck under > garage. If they now want to also require a full basement in these > structures that would be extremely difficult. > > Powderhorn received some very interesting entries to it's small lot > design competition. Maybe someone from Powderhorn Park can weigh in on > this issue. > > > > > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can > change the world. Indeed, > it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill <http://faith.yahoo.com> - Exclusive Performances, Videos, > & more > faith.yahoo.com <http://faith.yahoo.com> _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
