[Durham INC] parking studies?

[Ed Harrison]

Chapel Hill implemented paid downtown parking so long ago, I wouldn't know where to find any documents. Unlike downtown Durham or, especially, Ninth Street, East Franklin Street directly abuts the UNC campus for half a mile, a campus with essentially no available parking. Carrboro is wrestling with charging for parking at the same time as Durham, at a much smaller scale. Carrboro has no UNC property in town limits; Chapel Hill has some 20 million square feet, most of it within 3/4 of a mile of Franklin Street. 

What I find disturbing about the Ninth Street parking issue is the prospect of sizable new surface parking lots within easy walking distance of the traditional local retail (that I still visit after almost 24 years in Chapel Hill) that could be effectively unavailable to users of that retail. I also hope that there are some rim parking lots for downtown that remain free, simply requiring a long hike. I keep pairs of "parking shoes" for such hikes into downtown Chapel Hill.

Ed Harrison


On Oct 27, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Don Moffitt wrote:

> Do you any of you subscribers to the INC listserve know how/where to access studies on the impact of implementing paid parking on adjacent retail?
> 
> It seems like this is something that municipalities must wrestle with all the time, and something that would be easy to study. I did an online search and came up with newspaper stories, but not studies. The stories included some research, but it would be good to have more detailed studies to review.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Don Moffitt
> Durham City Council
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