Civil Engineering Reference
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Table 22.3 (continued)
City
Downtown
employment
(population)
Parking
supply
CBD parking
rates
CBD parking policy
CBD trafc mitigation
Key ndings
Denver
CO
118,000
71,000
greater-
CBD
spaces,
mostly
private off-
street (open
to public)
$60
80/mole
$0.50/half h
Minimum ratio (spaces
per 1,000 ft
2
) for ofce
2.0 citywide, except no
CBD maximum or
minimum
Essentially none
note
that parking requirements
not
set to encourage transit
or ridesharing
—
Some developers
provide as little as
0.25 spaces per 1,000
ft
2
in CBD
-
(Denver 491,000)
off-street,
public
Peripheral parking
allowed as alternative
Price breaks for car and
vanpools in certain city
facilities
Transit mode share
28 % for core area
employees; 13 % for
greater downtown
(SMSA 1.6 million)
$0.20
-
$1/h
on-street
Density bonuses for
CBD parking
above
70 % of non- CBD
ratio
Peripheral parking
provided, but little
used and hard to
monitor
Hartford,
CT
90,000
21,000
spaces,
12,7000
open to
public
$120
-
180/
mo. garage
CBD Minimum ratio
(spaces per 1,000 ft
2
)
for of
ce 1.0, new
CBD of
ce parking
must be underground
TMPs required for CBD
developments, additional
requirements for projects
impacting state hwys
Parking ratio
incentives and
peripheral parking
options not used
(2,700
public
on-street)
$50
75/mo.
Surface lot
30 % reduction for
demand management
Rideshare Company
encourages transit and
ridesharing
City peripheral
parking lot not well
used
-
$0.50/h
on-street
Peripheral parking
allowed
SOV use to CBD
55 % and increasing
Population is that within the city limits of Central City unless otherwise indicated.
SMSA
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
Source
Reference [
3
], pp 18
