Poor planning packs a peck of parking problems

Now that we’ve survived right sizing, down sizing, and no sizing (code for the last local election) it seems that one of the city of Boulder’s other more interesting public policies is getting some scrutiny.

That policy would be the now-famous “parking reduction” scheme. To those unfamiliar, historically the city of Boulder has been more lenient in allowing a larger permitted gross building envelope, provided that the developer agree to reduce the amount of onsite parking, or even better, eliminate any parking with the proposed development. Simply put, the city has decreed that if you…