Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about parking

Op-Ed: This Space for Rent, or How Cities Can Prioritize People Over Parking

By Scott Bernstein | Mar 31, 2014 | No Comments

Scott Bernstein is president and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago. This post was originally published in Next City. Americans are driving less. Some young people are choosing not to drive at all. Yet most cities continue to impose high minimum parking requirements on housing developers. These policies conflict with the character […]

How the Self-Driving Car Could Spell the End of Parking Craters

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 26, 2014 | No Comments

Here’s the rosy scenario of a future where cars drive themselves: Instead of owning cars, people will summon autonomous vehicles, hop in, and head to their destination. With fewer cars to be stored, parking lots and garages will give way to development, eventually bringing down the cost of housing in tight markets through increased supply. […]

Could Free Remote Cubs Parking Help Keep Cars Out of Wrigleyville?

By John Greenfield | Mar 19, 2014 | 34 Comments

The Chicago Cubs are making good on their promise to provide free remote parking for up to a thousand cars plus shuttle bus service for fans attending weekend and night games. The new lot, which will be located at 3900 North Rockwell, near Irving Park and the Chicago River, will replace the current paid remote […]

Lincoln Park Chamber Asks Merchants to Lobby Against Free Sunday Parking

By John Greenfield | Mar 17, 2014 | 11 Comments

Kudos to the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce for taking a stand against free Sunday parking. As reported by DNAinfo, last week the chamber sent its members an email titled, “Call to Action: End Free Sunday Parking at Meters.” The message asks merchants to contact aldermen like Scott Waguespack (32nd), Michele Smith (43rd), and Robert […]

Parking Madness 2014: Send Us Your Pics of Awful Parking Craters

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2014 | No Comments

It’s March, which can only mean one thing: Parking Madness time. Last year we asked our readers to help us crown the worst parking crater in an American city, and in that inaugural 16-entry bracket, Tulsa blew away the competition. But we know there are still plenty of other parking lots out there that make […]

Why Would a Developer Choose to Include Fewer Parking Spots?

By John Greenfield | Feb 27, 2014 | 16 Comments

For years Chicago’s zoning ordinance, which requires large amount of off-street car parking as part of most new residential buildings, has prevented developers from taking full advantage of transit-friendly locations. However, a transit-oriented development ordinance that passed last year lowers the required number of parking spaces for buildings near transit stations. As Steven Vance reported, […]

Parking Minimums at Work: Uptown Tower Must Build 554 Parking Spots

By Shaun Jacobsen | Jan 27, 2014 | 54 Comments

At the site of the former Cuneo Hospital and Maryville Academy in Uptown, slated to be demolished shortly, JDL Development has proposed building 749 apartments in two buildings, along with 30,000 square feet of retail space. In addition, 554 parking spaces will be constructed, the minimum required by Chicago’s zoning code. Of these spaces, 65 […]

Albany Park to Walgreens: Make a Walkable Store, Not Curb Cuts and Parking

By Steven Vance | Jan 14, 2014 | 60 Comments

Members of Albany Park Neighbors, a grassroots group of local residents, are gearing up to convince Walgreens to change the company’s proposed suburban store design for Kimball and Lawrence to one that will work better for a walkable city neighborhood. Walgreens is proposing to demolish an office building with a Payless Shoe Source on the […]

Waguespack Kvetches About Traffic Cameras and Higher Parking Fines

By John Greenfield | Oct 23, 2013 | 43 Comments

As I’ve written several times, 32nd Ward Alderman Scott Waguespack is one of City Council’s key independent voices, and he’s also a frequent bike commuter and a likeable person. That makes it especially annoying that he keeps making backward statements about transportation and public space issues. First he worried about the effect that swapping car […]

Traffic Aside, Does a Parking Garage Build Livable Neighborhoods?

By Steven Vance | Oct 11, 2013 | 17 Comments

Colonel Jennifer Pritzker’s crews have demolished the attractive, 90-year-old house, formerly home to the Shambala meditation center, that stood on the Rogers Park lot where the billionaire plans to build a 250-car parking garage. The new structure would largely serve visitors to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Emil Bach House and residents at Farcroft by the […]

Swap Parking for Green Space at the Golden Angel Site? The Horror!

By John Greenfield | Sep 18, 2013 | 41 Comments

The impending departure of the Golden Angel pancake house, 4344 North Lincoln in North Center, located kitty-corner from the Sulzer Library, where I often type up Streetsblog posts, is bitter-sweet for me. I’ll miss conversing with the chatty waitresses at this old-school greasy spoon while I tuck into a plate of their tasty chilaquiles. On […]

Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 18, 2013 | No Comments

We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning, which we published yesterday. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute — where he serves as executive director — about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense. A […]

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