The city Departments of Planning and Zoning and Transportation and Environmental Services are sponsoring a panel of speakers on the topic “Why Right-Sized Parking Matters: National and Regional Best Practices, Local Level Implementation, Impacts & Community Benefits” on Monday, March 31, at 7 p.m. at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St. The event launches the city’s Parking Standards for New Development Projects Study.
The panel will feature three speakers with extensive knowledge about parking issues from three perspectives: local and national research, local public policy, and private development. They are Chris B. Leinberger, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and president of Locus; Harriet Tregoning, director of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, U. S. Department Housing and Urban Development (and former director of Washington D.C.’s Office of Planning), and W. Clarke Ewart, Senior Principal, Paradigm Companies.
Additional Information about the Parking Standards for New Development Study can be found here.