Let's Start Counting! A Methodology to County On-Street Parking Spaces in Oregon Cities
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Date
2023
Authors
Yang, Yizhao
Vandehey, Adrian
Withrow, Timothy
Rhyan, Lucas
Kashinsky, Josh
McFeeters-Krone, Abby
Govindankutty, Anisha
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University of Oregon
Abstract
In November 2022, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
issued parking reform for cities with populations above 5,000 to address the financial
and environmental burdens of parking mandates. In addition to reforms that all included
cities must make, the cities with populations over 100,000 must choose between
eliminating parking mandates or adopting pricing for five percent of all on-street parking
spaces by 2023, and ten percent of all on-street parking spaces by 2025.
Should a city choose this route to comply with these reforms, it needs to know how
many on-street parking spaces there are in total. Like most cities, the City of Eugene
has varied GIS data but lacks accurate and comprehensive GIS data tracking on-street
parking; therefore, our team was tasked with developing a methodology to inventory the
on-street parking in Eugene that could be applied to other Oregon cities with
populations greater than 100,000.
The main objective of this project is to develop a repeatable methodology for identifying
on-street parking spaces and estimating their quantity. Our methods leverage widely
available GIS data and collection tools to determine the presence of on-street parking
based on the characteristics of streets that we sampled and analyzed. To ensure
repeatability, we include recommendations based on our research into the street design
standards and databases of Eugene and other Oregon cities.
Description
24 pages
Keywords
Sustainable City Year Program, Sustainable Cities Initiative, Advanced GIS, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development