Comments on: Call for Nominations: Downtown Denver’s Worst Parking Lot http://denverinfill.com/blog/2007/06/call-for-nominations-downtown-denvers.html News and information about urban infill development in the Mile High City Wed, 23 May 2012 05:26:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Planner III http://denverinfill.com/blog/2007/06/call-for-nominations-downtown-denvers.html/comment-page-1#comment-1399 Planner III Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:07:00 +0000 http://denverinfill.com/wordpress/2007/06/call-for-nominations-downtown-denvers-worst-parking-lot.html#comment-1399 How be upgrade parking lots without spending much city money and without waiting years for them to develop into buildings:<br /><br />#1. Modify the building code to include parking lots and specifically to include a landscape and screening standard for parking lots. For example, providing metal fencing and planters at the sidewalk line, consolidated entry/exit locations, etc.<br /><br />#2. Pass an ordinance to require a parking lot operation permit for downtown lots. This permit would have to be renewed biannually. Existing parking lots must apply for this permit.<br /><br />#3. Require any property owner building a new lot or applying for an operating permit for an existing lot to meet the building code.<br /><br />Under this scenario all parking lot owners would have to provide sufficient landscape and screening to meet the code, and they would be inspected biannually. This would go a long way to improving the appearance of existing parking lots, without having them all converted to buildings overnight. Since the cost of landscape is so small compared to parking lot revenue, this is not really a hardship on the lot owner. How be upgrade parking lots without spending much city money and without waiting years for them to develop into buildings:

#1. Modify the building code to include parking lots and specifically to include a landscape and screening standard for parking lots. For example, providing metal fencing and planters at the sidewalk line, consolidated entry/exit locations, etc.

#2. Pass an ordinance to require a parking lot operation permit for downtown lots. This permit would have to be renewed biannually. Existing parking lots must apply for this permit.

#3. Require any property owner building a new lot or applying for an operating permit for an existing lot to meet the building code.

Under this scenario all parking lot owners would have to provide sufficient landscape and screening to meet the code, and they would be inspected biannually. This would go a long way to improving the appearance of existing parking lots, without having them all converted to buildings overnight. Since the cost of landscape is so small compared to parking lot revenue, this is not really a hardship on the lot owner.

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