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Should parking requirements be loosened to encourage more apartment construction?
Yes, they should be loosened!
No, they shouldn't!
Bend is already making significant changes to development codes to encourage construction. Eliminating all parking requirements is not necessary. Doing so would allow developers to avoid creating off-street parking and instead opt for on-street credits, often counting a single space multiple times.
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If Bend's City Council and Planning Dept wants to continue to push people out of cars, they need to get serious about buses, bike lanes, and sidewalks - and snow clearing of sidewalks. This is just another handout our local government is giving to developers - and we voters want this to STOP.
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If parking doesn't generate money....no developer will put in but the bare minimum! Bend's bus system is not adequate for working here let alone playing here!
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M. Walker The city has been steadily reducing parking rates for years and the on-street parking overflowing into the surrounding neighborhood just keeps getting worse. City should follow their Comprehensive Plan Policy #39 and practice the "right-sizing" approach staff championed in Dec 2017.
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Letting developers determine adequate parking in developments is a terrible idea. Having minimum parking restrictions set by the city provides at minimum, parking year round. If we run out of space for development, that’s ok too.
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Until Bend’s population and culture support a realistic mass-transit system people will continue to drive personal vehicles. We already have a undesirable on-street parking problem with the minimum set. Lowering that minimum is irresponsible to the quality of life most of us are seeking here.
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I look at existing complexes apartments etc, and the public parking is taken by people living in these living spaces. It hurts the citizens that want to use these parking spaces to use when they want to go into a store or restaurant..
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Expand the UGB if builders want to make more money. This does not have to be uncontrolled sprawl. It just needs to be sensible. People with no allotted parking will park on the street. Look around, people!
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Parking spots are an essential part of housing! How ludicrous this even would be considered.
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I understand land is a premium resource in Bend. By allowing developers to make that decision regarding the number of parking space will be a disaster. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Please please please, stop funding Visit Bend. A 5yr moratorium is needed. We don't need to advertise anymo
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Just where will residents park? Can’t trust developers not to take advantage; they do already. Enough is enough.
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Parking is a necessity whether you're in low-income or high-income housing. In an effort not to use more land for parking, the parking needs to go underground or on a lower level of the home/apartment. Ignoring the parking issue will place the parking burden on surrounding neighborhoods.
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More housing, and lower price, is needed. Requiring parking, even when the tenants don't want to pay the cost of it, only raises housing prices, and reduces the amount that can be built on a parcel of land. If tenants want parking, and it's hard to find, developers can provide it.
ReplyPeople shouldn't be forced to purchase car parking to get housing. This won't stop parking from being built, it will provide more, much needed, housing options. People in the "No, they shouldn't!" column can pay for all the parking they want!
ReplyAbsolutely!!!! In fact, why not just turn downtown Bend into a walking mall and restrict all vehicles and bicycles traffic whatsoever? Did it work in Eugene in the '70's. Absolutely not!! Most business' closed. Build apartments is akin to closing downtown Eugene. Restrice travel, close Bend retail!!
ReplyThe government should not force auto subsidies on businesses or homes.
ReplyThe younger generation are moving away from cars. Let the market decide this. People that need off street parking can seek those units. Those that don't, won't
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