New parking rules in downtown Nashua mean more spaces, less time
Nashuatelegraph.com
January 28, 2012
Brian Regan heard customers marvel over the sudden profusion of parking spaces. "It was like winning the lottery," exuberant customers would tell Regan, a salesman at Alec's Shoes on Main Street.
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SFGate: Muir Woods National Monument upgrades
Sfgate.com
January 28, 2012
Winter has returned to Muir Woods, a famous redwood forest only 11 miles from the Golden Gate. The first rains of the new year produced new life in Redwood Creek, which flows through the woods. Even a handful of steelhead and coho salmon have returned from the Pacific Ocean to spawn at the base of trees more than a thousand years old.
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Parking is a chronic headache for many residents and businesses in major cities. But policy makers and developers are increasingly realizing that simply building more parking is not the solution. In major urban areas, parking can add 20% to the cost of a residential unit, and reduces the potential number of units on a parcel by 20%. At the same time, more parking can exacerbate problems with traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities are increasingly recognizing the harm caused by excess parking, and the trend is to abolish requirements for developers to build a minimum number of spaces – especially in downtowns and other dense, transit-rich parts of the city. San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have even introduced caps on parking in some districts. Carsharing and unbundling are two innovations that can help make reduced parking succeed, and promote transit-focused developments with more affordable housing. Read More>>
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Nelson\Nygaard is proud to announce the publication of our first book, Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy and Resilient Communities. To be published by Wiley in January 2012, the book is now available as an e-book and for pre-oreder in hardcover.
Sustainable Transportation Planning seeks to tackle the greatest social and environmental concerns of the 21st century, focusing on the role of transportation in creating more sustainable communities. The book offers a big-picture approach to transportation systems. Using clear, nontechnical language, this guide provides step-by-step instructions for implementing smart transportation concepts in cities of all sizes. Making this material accessible opens the door to greater participation in transportation planning by design and policy professionals, as well as citizen activists. The text also helps transportation professionals better understand and align their discipline within the broader movement toward sustainable urbanism.
Written and edited by a dozen Nelson\Nygaard staffers and led by Jeffrey Tumlin, Sustainable Transportation Planning features:
- Background on how transportation relates to land use planning, economic development, public health, social capital, and ecological success in cities.
- Technical guidance on all modes of transportation, and tools for balancing the needs of each mode against the others.
- Tools for managing transportation systems efficiently, including the role of parking and transportation demand management.
- Approaches for designing station areas and other locations where there is a high need to accommodate all modes, as well as the need to create a great sense of “place.”
- Case studies that look at exemplary projects across North America
Working from a comprehensive definition of sustainability—one that encompasses economic, ecological, and social vitality—Sustainable Transportation Planning provides the definitive sourcebook for understanding and implementing the full range of modern community transportation systems.
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City parking needs to stay a top priority
Seacoastonline.com
December 12, 2011
The other notable takeaway was that the Worth lot was smaller than ideal for a parking garage, which Jason Schreiber, a representative of Nelson/Nygaard, ...
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Bus service seeks public input on new name and logo
Longview Daily News
December 8, 2011
Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates of Portland recently presented a list of about 80 names to CUBS staff, which narrowed it down to three choices. ...
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City Council Tables $12 Million Parking Garage Bond
Patch.com
December 6, 2011
St. Laurent said the city's parking consultant, Jason Schreiber of Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates of Boston, made a presentation last week where he ...
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Parking Study Highlights Need For New Businesses
Patch.com
December 5, 2011
By Keith Heffintrayer
The Nelson\Nygaard consulting firm presented their ... As a part of the parking study, the Nelson\Nygaard firm conducted an online ...
