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How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica

What Santa Monica needed – and eventually got – was a different kind of parking change. The critical policy was to create a by-right process allowing developers to build, and businesses to operate, with less on-site parking. It was a dramatic break from what is typical of virtually every city in America: require every business to provide abundant on-site parking, free of charge to all its patrons, regardless of whether or not the business deems it necessary.

by Carter Rubin

Full Story: http://la.streetsblog.org/2013/07/23/how-flexible-parking-requirements-spur-economic-development-lessons-from-santa-monica/

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