Parking As A Neighborhood Asset

"The solution is not, as many have suggested, to eliminate parking from our playbooks. Most people in the region still drive for most trips. So to create parking-free zones in today’s Los Angeles would be tantamount to creating people-free zones.

Rather, we suggest approaching parking as a neighborhood essential rather than an ad-hoc 'mitigation' for the impact of individual projects. With good urban design and effective zoning mechanisms in place, community parking can be more effective even than a transit station in creating the incentives to develop pedestrian-oriented uses in a neighborhood."