In an interview with New Urban News, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman explains how planners can help communities achieve their stated goals (such as less pollution and more affordable housing) by presenting decision-makers with three approaches to parking policy:
"Most municipalities have codes with minimum off-street parking requirements. Many of these are also interested in sustainability and transit-oriented development — but they don’t know how to achieve these goals through their parking policies, according to transportation planner Patrick Siegman of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates in San Francisco, California.
The technique Siegman has used is to present three alternative approaches, he told New Urban News:…"