Would You Miss DC’s Parking Garages?
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At $1 an hour rates, you would think the garage could quickly fill for any number of reasons in a densely populated metropolitan region. But on any given day, the garage is at 25% – 47% capacity.
And what’s worse, the $40 million dollar parking lot was required by the city and funded by taxpayer dollars.
While perhaps District officials couldn’t have foreseen the disinterest in parking in Columbia Heights, hindsight is 20/20. District officials are working to rewrite the regulations that require developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces for new construction in areas near Metro stations.
What do you think about DC’s growing lack of demand for parking spaces? If there were none, would you miss them?
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2 Responses to “Would You Miss DC’s Parking Garages?”
October 9th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I don’t have a car, so I wouldn’t mind. I think if D.C. wants to view itself as a true international city, it needs to stop developing itself like an old fashion American suburb. That age is over.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:19 am
The bit about the parking garage at “the Highland” (by which they mean Highland Park) is amusing. We just moved into the sister property Park Place (same developer, same architect, similarly oversized garage) and were initially quoted $200/mo for a parking space. I laughed. I think *some* garage space is necessary, but the garages in these new buildings have much more capacity than demand.
But if Chris Donatelli wants to put that bowling alley into the Park Place garage instead, he’ll get no complaint from this tenant.