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• The Daily Report

  Activists to Turn Parking Spaces into Green Spaces

  Brian Krier | Fri, Aug 22nd, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Los Angeles | Tags: brian krier, parks, public space, green space, parking, land use, guerilla gardening, parking day | 4

  Between all the mammoth S.U.V.s, boxy minivans and compact cars, parallel parking in any city can be a nightmare. Come Sept. 19, drivers in cities around the world vying for curbside parking will also have to compete with potted plants, park benches and some clever environmental activists. 

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• Headlines

  Parking, Tolls and Bike Boxes, Oh My!

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Jan 10th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, parking, salt lake city, democracy philly style, tolls and bike boxes, changing face of slc, pittsburg's ongoing revitalization | 0

  Fort Worth’s High Cost of Free Parking

  “You might think city leaders had carefully calculated how many spaces would be needed each year and made leasing decisions on that basis — but you would be wrong. In fact, the money subsidizes far more than parking — and in some cases, pays for parking spaces that don’t even exist yet.

  The money comes from the downtown tax increment financing district — a TIF, as it is called — and the free parking program is the biggest outlay of a…

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