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-(https://www.mapc_org/), SEARCH <br />Search GO <br />METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING COUNCIL <br />JOBS(HTrPS://WWW.GOVERNMENTIOBS.COM/CAREERS/MAPC) CALENDAR(/CALENDAR/), <br />PRESS ROOM (/PRESS-ROOMn, BLOG (/PLANNING101/), <br />LEARN OUR WORK GET INVOLVED ABOUT MAPC <br />Creating a "Park Once" District <br />Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:17 pm. Written by Kit Un (https://www.mapc_or& anningL01/author/kun/), <br />LESS DRIVING, MORE WALKING <br />Even in places where most people drive to their destinations, <br />the most successful downtowns will feature sidewalks full of <br />pedestrians, walking between the barber and the bank, the <br />doctor's office and the post office, stopping for lunch and <br />doing some shopping. Many trips but only one parking space. <br />This is sometimes called a "park once" district, because people <br />are encouraged to park in one place and then make stops on <br />foot rather then driving from one destination to another <br />within the district, as you would with a car -oriented strip mall <br />area. Creating the type of environment where its easy for <br />people to walk between destinations involves both good <br />urban design and parking policies. If each destination is <br />required to provide its own off-street parking, and each <br />building may have parking on all sides, dead zones of surface <br />parking lots are created between destinations that make <br />walking distances longer and walking experiences less <br />pleasant, so that people have every incentive to get back in <br />the car to go a few stores down. <br />Strategies <br />Reduce scattered surface parking lots: <br />• Centralize parking facilities by allowing or requiring <br />developers to pay into a fund to be used for building public <br />parking rather than providing their own on -site parking <br />(see fees -in -lieu). <br />File Types: Report <br />( I�ttps://www.map_c,org/plannir <br />type report/), <br />Download File:Download <br />.(https://www.mapc.orgLresour <br />library/parking-issues- <br />and-questions/), <br />75G-71 <br />