December 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Gas stations are crime vectors. They need to be treated as the public safety camcer they are by city statues. Especially zoning.
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This happened just down the street by the big vacant lot and new Duncan on Kingshighway fox2now.com/news/missour...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Gas stations are crime vectors. They need to be treated as the public safety camcer they are by city statues. Especially zoning.
#zoneforpeoplestl
#carsruincities
#zoneforpeoplestl
#carsruincities
Gas stations and drive thrus should be nowhere near homes, schools, daycares, hospitals, parks. Let's ensure our zoning code treats them as the public health and safety threat that they are.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Gas stations and drive thrus should be nowhere near homes, schools, daycares, hospitals, parks. Let's ensure our zoning code treats them as the public health and safety threat that they are.
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#carsruincities
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Way to go Baltimore!
Shall we end the mandate?
#parkingsmartstl
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"The city is reducing red tape for development by eliminating parking minimums and allowing single staircases in certain buildings."
Shall we end the mandate?
#parkingsmartstl
#zoneforpeoplestl
"The city is reducing red tape for development by eliminating parking minimums and allowing single staircases in certain buildings."
Baltimore, eyeing a ‘renaissance,’ passes a slew of housing reforms
The city is reducing red tape for development by eliminating parking minimums and allowing single staircases in certain buildings.
www.multifamilydive.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Way to go Baltimore!
Shall we end the mandate?
#parkingsmartstl
#zoneforpeoplestl
"The city is reducing red tape for development by eliminating parking minimums and allowing single staircases in certain buildings."
Shall we end the mandate?
#parkingsmartstl
#zoneforpeoplestl
"The city is reducing red tape for development by eliminating parking minimums and allowing single staircases in certain buildings."
Parking minimums and housing caps are bass ackwards. Let's reduce or eliminate parking mandates.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Parking minimums and housing caps are bass ackwards. Let's reduce or eliminate parking mandates.
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NEW:
Denver City Council ends parking minimums! 9-3 vote (No: Gilmore, Sawyer, Flynn)
Old code required market-rate apartments to have 1 parking space per dwelling unit & restaurants to have nearly 4 parking spaces per 1,000 sq ft of indoor space.
Big win for YIMBY
#copolitics
Denver City Council ends parking minimums! 9-3 vote (No: Gilmore, Sawyer, Flynn)
Old code required market-rate apartments to have 1 parking space per dwelling unit & restaurants to have nearly 4 parking spaces per 1,000 sq ft of indoor space.
Big win for YIMBY
#copolitics
August 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The housing crisis is a supply and demand issue. Building more housing pushes rent down.
With our new land-use plan and our upcoming zoning overhaul, St. Louis is on the right track. In the meantime, our focus should be on density, density, density.
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With our new land-use plan and our upcoming zoning overhaul, St. Louis is on the right track. In the meantime, our focus should be on density, density, density.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
July 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This drive thru coffee on Hampton has a floor to area ratio (FAR) of 0.05. The fast food drive thru proposal on Kingshighway approved by the Board of Adjustment yesterday has a FAR of 0.06. #Stl zoning code has max FARs, maybe there should be min FARs?
#sowinginsolvency
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#sowinginsolvency
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July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This drive thru coffee on Hampton has a floor to area ratio (FAR) of 0.05. The fast food drive thru proposal on Kingshighway approved by the Board of Adjustment yesterday has a FAR of 0.06. #Stl zoning code has max FARs, maybe there should be min FARs?
#sowinginsolvency
#zoneforpeoplestl
#sowinginsolvency
#zoneforpeoplestl
Board of Adjustment meeting today 1:30. Zoning variances for the fast food drive thru on Kingshighway and self storage at Jefferson and Chouteau will be considered. Testify!
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July 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Board of Adjustment meeting today 1:30. Zoning variances for the fast food drive thru on Kingshighway and self storage at Jefferson and Chouteau will be considered. Testify!
#zoneforpeoplestl
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Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels.
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
Rent prices are falling fast in America’s most pro-housing cities
Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.
reason.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Subdividing 7201 Southwest is on the June 25 Board of Adjustment agenda. Great to see an increase in land productivity! Stupid our zoning doesn't allow this two-family by default.
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June 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Subdividing 7201 Southwest is on the June 25 Board of Adjustment agenda. Great to see an increase in land productivity! Stupid our zoning doesn't allow this two-family by default.
#zoneforpeoplestl
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At least we had enough parking.
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#zoneforpeoplestl
Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
May 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
At least we had enough parking.
#zoneforpeoplestl
#zoneforpeoplestl
If only we had 62 more apartments in Tower Grove South and 140 at Delmar and Skinker
#zoneforpeoplestl
#zoneforpeoplestl
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If only we had 62 more apartments in Tower Grove South and 140 at Delmar and Skinker
#zoneforpeoplestl
#zoneforpeoplestl
"Right now, market-rate apartments require one parking space per dwelling unit, with restaurants requiring nearly four parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of indoor space. Under the new proposal, developers would be able to choose how many parking spots, if any, to include in building plans."
Parking minimum requirements for new construction in Denver could soon go away for good
Under the new proposal, developers would be able to choose how many parking spots, if any, to include in building plans for businesses and apartment complexes.
www.denver7.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In a new op-ed for Crains, I talk about the importance of ending parking mandates — particularly to support preservation and continued growth of the city’s beloved and valuable small-scale multifamily housing
www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/endi...
www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/endi...
Opinion: Want more affordable housing? Start by ending parking mandates.
Chicago’s iconic two- and three-flats are at risk. Reforming parking mandates could help preserve them and expand affordable housing across the city.
www.chicagobusiness.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks to U City's onerous parking mandates, tons more CO2 will heat the planet and rent will be higher for tenents for parking spaces that will be empty.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thanks to U City's onerous parking mandates, tons more CO2 will heat the planet and rent will be higher for tenents for parking spaces that will be empty.
#zoneforpeoplestl
#zoneforpeoplestl
Great example
"the new requirements make for very expensive construction. I built a 4-fam on a lot that had a 15 unit on it years ago. We wanted greater density to lower the per unit cost as well as to make sure the project made economic sense. . NUTZ!"
#zoneforpeoplestl
"the new requirements make for very expensive construction. I built a 4-fam on a lot that had a 15 unit on it years ago. We wanted greater density to lower the per unit cost as well as to make sure the project made economic sense. . NUTZ!"
#zoneforpeoplestl
May 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Great example
"the new requirements make for very expensive construction. I built a 4-fam on a lot that had a 15 unit on it years ago. We wanted greater density to lower the per unit cost as well as to make sure the project made economic sense. . NUTZ!"
#zoneforpeoplestl
"the new requirements make for very expensive construction. I built a 4-fam on a lot that had a 15 unit on it years ago. We wanted greater density to lower the per unit cost as well as to make sure the project made economic sense. . NUTZ!"
#zoneforpeoplestl
Let’s Zone for People
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Let's Zone for People - NextSTL
Our zoning code needs an upgrade. Its last overhaul was in 1947 by noted St. Louis villain Harland Bartholomew. It has density maximums and parking minimums. That is bass ackwards. Year after year we ...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Let’s Zone for People
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They won. Those 62 households have to live elsewhere. It is still vacant.
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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May 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
They won. Those 62 households have to live elsewhere. It is still vacant.
#zoneforpeoplestl
Let's upgrade our zoning!
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#zoneforpeoplestl
Let's upgrade our zoning!
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May 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This commercial building is illegal under the current zoning code. It has a floor to area ratio greater than 1.5, and less than the mandated number of off-street parking spaces. It hosts one of the most beloved bookstores in the region.
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This commercial building is illegal under the current zoning code. It has a floor to area ratio greater than 1.5, and less than the mandated number of off-street parking spaces. It hosts one of the most beloved bookstores in the region.
#zoneforpeoplestl
Let's upgrade our zoning!
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#zoneforpeoplestl
Let's upgrade our zoning!
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This building is illegal under the current #stl zoning code. It is taller than 3 stories or 50 ft, has a floor to area ratio greater than 1.5, and has less than 1,500 sf of land per dwelling unit.
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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May 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This building is illegal under the current #stl zoning code. It is taller than 3 stories or 50 ft, has a floor to area ratio greater than 1.5, and has less than 1,500 sf of land per dwelling unit.
#zoneforpeoplestl
Let's upgrade our zoning!
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Let's upgrade our zoning!
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🔥⚡🎆 over a median. These same folks will be present and loud during the zoning upgrade effort. Get ready!
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May 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🔥⚡🎆 over a median. These same folks will be present and loud during the zoning upgrade effort. Get ready!
#zoneforpeoplestl
#zoneforpeoplestl