Dude: Where

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Dude Wheres My Parking Space?

• Robert T. Dunphy
• ULI Infill Housing Conference
• Dallas, Texas
• September 29, 2003

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Robert T. Dunphy

• Senior Resident Fellow,
• Transportation and Infrastructure
• Urban Land Institute
• September 29, 2003

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Dude Wheres My Space?

• On the Street
• Behind the Stores
• The garage behind your unit
• Look on your palm pilot
• Duh, In the Parking Lot

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Parking - Big Foot

• Form follows parking
• Michael Eisner
• Residential Almost living space

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Parking and the Landscape

• Shopping Centers
• 3 X shopping

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Malls - An Ocean of Parking

• Sycamore Plaza at Kenwood
• Streets 3.5 X Bldgs

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Suburban Parking

• Public policy charge and minimize
• Free means more required
• Consumer Dude, wheres my parking?

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Infill Needs Less Parking

• Reduces developer, housing costs
• Greater design flexibility
• Pro Environment

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Less Parking Space

• Downsize it
• Use the street
• Share it
• Deck it
• Integrate it
• Separate it

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How Much is Enough?

• The Goldilocks Approach
• Sources of Parking Data
• ITE ?
• APA
• ULI
• Local/Propriety

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ITE

• 2004 Parking Generation
• Residential
• Low Rise city vs. suburban
• High Rise More data?
• Rental T/H New Cat, old data
• Peak at night, most _at_ home in day -SP
• Might consider collecting additional data to
  validate local conditions.

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Downsize It

• one size fits all space
• No More spaces than needed

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Use the Street

• Past - all off street
• Now - in front is good
• Give credit for street parking

Mizner Park
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Share It

• Residents nights - shoppers days
• Good development practice
• Local preferences for mixing residential

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Same Mix of Uses
Shared Parking 2 ½ - 3 per 1,000 sf
Exclusive (unshared) Parking 5-6 Spaces/ 1000
sf
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Deck It

• Less land needed
• Reduces walking
• Needed when FARs gt .5 - .85
• Land over 30/ft2

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Integrate It

• Wrap w/people uses
• Errands, shopping
• Walking Interest
• Built-in clientele

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Separate It

• Remove it from the site physically
• Better options for the site designer
• Facilitates sharing
• Separate financing

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Separate Financing

• By partnering for the construction and
  management of the garage, a parking developer can
  bring in extra revenues from other clients and
  reduce the cost for the tenants.
• Marshall Peck, Chairman of InterPark

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Cotton Mill New Orleans

• Historic rehab
• 0.66 spaces/ unit
• No Parking off site
• Street parking
• Visitor Fee parking

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Changing Parking Can Have Enormous Impact

• Revenue stream
• Reduces demand
• More integrated urban development

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Lessons, Dude

• Were talking parking first
• Whos in charge?
• The Goldilocks approach
• Management and technology
• Have a back up
• It aint free to me, dude