Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Reducing parking spaces

[nancybtoo (nancybtoo]

Our community (Coho Ecovillage in Corvallis, Oregon) has 43 parking spaces for 
34 households.

There are generally 3-4 empty spaces each night.

We have 7 households with 2 cars. One household with no car. Otherwise 1 car per 
household totaling 39 so I think I counted about right.

How did we get so lucky? We live about 1 mile and a half south of a healthy 
downtown in a bicycle friendly community. We can bike across town in 25 minutes 
(driving would take 15 minutes).

Downtown offers (in descending order of importance to me) a hardware store, 
independent movie theatre, 3 bike shops, lots of places to eat, thrift stores, a 
brewing supply store,  a dance studio. See 
http://www.corvallisiba.org/directory/index.html to learn more about independent 
businesses in Corvallis.


We also live on a bus route with the most frequent busses in Corvallis. Busses 
are fareless so no need to fumble for change.





On 6/19/2013 11:13 AM, Doug Hanvey wrote:
> Our forming community would like to minimize the number of parking spaces
> per unit.  We've been thinking of ways to discourage on-site parking (we
> live in a bike-friendly town near a bus stop). One idea was to charge
> residents for the use of parking spaces. Does anyone have any experience
> with this, or suggestions for other unique ways of reducing/discouraging
> car use, and thus minimizing the need for parking spaces?
>
>
>
> Doug Hanvey
>
> Bloomington Cohousing
>
> Bloomington, Indiana
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