Amid conflicts between residents, businesses and developers, the University District Alliance will host a community forum Wednesday evening to discuss exactly how much parking the area needs. The alliance, a partnership between the University and its surrounding neighborhoods, organized a parking task force to solve the problem when Ward 2 Councilman Cam Gordon asked it for help in October. Across Minneapolis, the standard parking requirement is one space per residential unit. But in 2008, city planners shifted the University district’s policy to require 0.5 spaces per bedroom but no less than one space per unit, because of the area’s growing trend of high-density developments. Since then, developers have complained this requirement is asking too much from them, while businesses say they need the parking to attract customers and combat a shortage of spaces. The problem spurred the Dinkytown Business Association to draft a small-area plan around the lack of parking in the business district, among other issues.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:14:10 +0000
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