Comments on: How Much of Portland is Used for Off Street Parking? https://parkingreform.org/2023/03/29/how-much-of-portland-is-used-for-off-street-parking/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Tony Jordan https://parkingreform.org/2023/03/29/how-much-of-portland-is-used-for-off-street-parking/#comment-706 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:31:55 +0000 https://parkingreform.org/?p=3842#comment-706 In reply to Rob Nob.

Rob,

If you are referring to our “parking lot maps” the methodology on that project explains that properties where the primary use of the lot is parking (like a garage) are included, even if they contain ground floor retail or accessory uses. They are parking facilities.

As for Ryan’s project, it’s a different dataset. Ryan reviewed the overhead imagery and marked all off-street paved surfaces, his dataset does not include garages.

]]> By: Rob Nob https://parkingreform.org/2023/03/29/how-much-of-portland-is-used-for-off-street-parking/#comment-690 Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:15:23 +0000 https://parkingreform.org/?p=3842#comment-690 I live in Portland and these are not all surface lots. Most parking in the red areas are parking garages, even some with retail/office on other levels.

NW Everitt and Naito : Garage 4-Story with ground floor offices
NW Everitt and 6th : Garage 2-Story with ground floor offices
NW Couch and 9th: Garage 2-Story
SW Pine and 4th : Garage 5-Story with ground floor retail
SW Pine and 5th : Garage 12-Story
SW Pine and 6th : Garage 6-Story with ground floor retail
SW Montgomery and 12th : Garage 6-Story
SW Washington and 13th: Garage 2-Story
SW Washington and 11th : Garage 2-Story
SW Alder and 6th : Garage 12-Story with 2 floors of retail
SW Hall and 6th : Garage 7-Story
SW Mill and 6th : Garage 5-Story
SW Market and 1st : Garage 2-Story with ground floor retail and 4-Story offices above
SW Market and 2nd : Garage 7-Story with ground floor retail
SW Market and 3rd : Garage 2-Story
SW Clay and 3rd : Garage 8-Story
SW Clay and 4th: Garage 2-Story with ground floor retail
SW Clay and 5th : Garage 2-Story
SW Morrison and 4th : Garage 10-Story with ground floor retail
SW Morrison and 1st : Garage 2-Story
SW Madison and 2nd : Garage 10-Story with ground floor retail
SW Alder and 4th: Garage 10-Story with ground floor retail
SW Main and 6th : Garage 10-Story with ground floor retail
SW Yamhill and 3rd : Garage 8-Story
SW Yamhill and 10th : Garage 7-Story with ground floor retail
SW Yamhill and 12th : Garage 2-Story
SW Salmon and 9th : Garage 5-Story with ground floor retail
SW Salmon and 5th : Garage 7-Story with ground floor retail
SW Salmon and 4th : Garage 9-Story with ground floor retail

All garages, not surface lots.

]]> By: Tony Jordan https://parkingreform.org/2023/03/29/how-much-of-portland-is-used-for-off-street-parking/#comment-564 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:16:04 +0000 https://parkingreform.org/?p=3842#comment-564 In reply to Scott Batson.

Hey Scott! Thanks for the comment. I believe if you re-read Ryan’s post you’ll find that he directly addresses the land uses and says that developing only the 18% of the PARKING LOTS that are suitable for housing to their max zoned potential could house 700k people.

]]> By: Scott Batson https://parkingreform.org/2023/03/29/how-much-of-portland-is-used-for-off-street-parking/#comment-563 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:11:03 +0000 https://parkingreform.org/?p=3842#comment-563 Thanks for the analysis. What would the numbers look like if you excluded the industrial and port facilities, since they would never be converted to housing? Port facilities (along the Willamette and Columbia Rivers) for storing containers or imported cars offloaded from ships before being sent around the country by train or truck would be very expensive to convert to multi-level parking garages or warehouses, and the long term parking at the airport is similarly unlikely to be changed anytime soon. Understating is preferable to overstating the benefits.

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