MARTA TOD Development (Atlanta: leases, neighborhood, construction)

[onemanarmy]

The key to all of these developments is to not provide parking for everyone. This project will be at a MARTA station, so parking should be limited to paying customers and commuters. The problem with a lot of these new developments is that parking cost are socialize by all renters or owners in the case of condos. Parking should be a stand alone product. My condo has 2 parking spaces that rents for $300 a month and rising, almost 1/3 of my mortgage payment. I would have gladly given up those spaces if the sales price of my unit was cut by a third. I still think that daily parking should be free for MARTA riders, but retail and residences should pay to park.

[jsvh]

Agree with comments above. We got to stop subsidizing parking. Parking takes up a lot of land and harms communities.

Also, additional coverage: Builder Picked for Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA Mixed-Use - MARTA Matters - Curbed Atlanta

"We're listening to what metro Atlantans want when it comes to transportation and quality of life. Fewer and fewer people are willing to spend hours in traffic, and they want the convenience of leaving work and getting home without the aggravation of sitting on the interstate."

[cqholt]

I do know during the NPU-O meetings 2 years ago, the neighbors want to preserve on-street parking. So that is a way to provide the retail with parking. I'll never understand some people's opposition to on-street parking.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by cqholt

I do know during the NPU-O meetings 2 years ago, the neighbors want to preserve on-street parking. So that is a way to provide the retail with parking. I'll never understand some people's opposition to on-street parking.

Well, you are blocking people's view and taking up their visual elbow room. Suppose someone has a nice yard and somebody else comes along and parks a POC car in front of it -- is that fair?

There's also the question of crime. If just anybody can park in front of your house, what's to stop them from boosting your stuff and driving off with it?

All that being said, I favor on street parking in many neighborhoods.

[MattCW]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Well, you are blocking people's view and taking up their visual elbow room.

Your "visual elbow room" ends at your property line

Suppose someone has a nice yard and somebody else comes along and parks a POC car in front of it -- is that fair?

Yes, because it's a public road.

There's also the question of crime. If just anybody can park in front of your house, what's to stop them from boosting your stuff and driving off with it?

This has to be one of the sillier things you've said. What is the correlation between on-street parking and theft? What's to stop them boosting your stuff and driving off with it from your driveway? I don't even get what you're getting at here.

[onemanarmy]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Well, you are blocking people's view and taking up their visual elbow room. Suppose someone has a nice yard and somebody else comes along and parks a POC car in front of it -- is that fair?

There's also the question of crime. If just anybody can park in front of your house, what's to stop them from boosting your stuff and driving off with it?

All that being said, I favor on street parking in many neighborhoods.

Your comments are so absurd, but I have to give it to you they are funny and memorable.... I was walking down Pharr Rd an hour ago and saw a place called "Elbow Room" and I thought about you. Well done sir! The irony of this, is that Streets of Buckhead, or whatever it's called is towering all over this little eatery. No Elbow Room for Elbow Room.....

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by MattCW

Yes, because it's a public road.

That may be true legally but it's sort of a deterrent to improving one's property. Who wants to knock themselves out creating a beautiful lawn and garden if any yahoo on the planet can pull up and park his heap directly in front of it?

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by MattCW

I'm not sure Atlanta's quite ready to go car-free yet.

Originally Posted by bu2

If you build it without parking, you automatically exclude a large number of your potential customers.

There is a market out there for this. Maybe not 100% parking free, but cheaper apartments that do not have a parking space. Make a parking space a premium feature. I would never personally use this, but I know there is a good sized group of people that this would appeal to.

Plus the development could use it for hella marketing.

[cqholt]

The Atlanta Transit Agency's Big Plan to Convert Parking Lots into Housing - CityLab

[tikigod311]

Very exciting article.

I didn't know they had to replace every space removed, that kind of sucks.