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Can Reducing Parking Encourage Urban Center Villages?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
30 March 2005 - 10:00am

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants to encourage the creation of "urban center villages" by reducing the number of required minimum parking spaces for new multifamily housing.

"As bad as it is now, parking on Capitol Hill -- Seattle's densest neighborhood -- may get even worse under a proposal by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. The mayor wants to reduce the number of required minimum parking spaces for new multifamily housing on much of Capitol Hill and in two other neighborhoods: First Hill and the University District.

The intent: to spur additional affordable housing and advance the city's goal of creating 'urban center villages,' where people live, shop and work in one area, with fewer cars..."

Full Story: Parking tight in Seattle? Mayor plans to squeeze it more
Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 29, 2005
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