New Tool Maps Bay Area’s Expensive, Unused Parking.
Oakland-based non-profit TransForm wants to cut down this pricey — but often required by city code — piece of the development process. Through a new database launching today, it aims to show that, despite their central place in both zoning code and development plans, parking structures in Northern California’s urban core are actually underutilized as residents drive less. …
The tool, called the GreenTrip Parking Database, overlays multifamily housing data on Google Maps, focusing primarily on high-growth areas like the East and South Bay.
With over 65 complexes shown, users can filter information into sub-categories (to find only buildings with a certain number of units, say, or only buildings located in a certain city). Each tailored search brings up a page with parking information: the number of spaces allotted per unit, the number of spaces actually being used and then, most significantly, the cost of that unused space.
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