Parking

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* Planks about Parking from Mark Rauterkus
* Make a speakers' corner at Forbes lot from City Paper in January 2006.
* Parking-planks-Wagner Chelsa Wagner wants handicap parking changes
* Parking-planks-Moser
==Don't touch that chair.==
In January 2004, I made a public call for the liquidation of the Parking Authority. Some six months later, that concept began to appear in some of the plans and comments from those with oversight powers and from the state legislature.
==Downtown Parking ==
The officials at the Parking Authority see a pent up demand for downtown housing. A few housing projects are in progress. Most of these take office spaces and convert them to apartments and condos.
With more downtown residents, they are going to need dedicated places to park. 
In November, 2004, the Parking Authority's board made better allowance for some type of downtown parking program.
==Links==
* Handicapped parking
* Parking tax
===Media===
* Parking Perks for gov workers from March 2008
* Opinion: Getting Around: Try Black Friday free parking to bring people Downtown December 10, 2006, by Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Memo to the city of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
* Free Downtown parking ploy appears to be working Post-Gazette, December 2007
* Concert, city take tow on mom, dad - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - parking issues near Civic Arena on Centre Avenue from January 2008
===Blogs===
* http://antirust.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/too_much_parkin.html from November, 2006
====Blogs about Parking Elsewhere====
* http://pittsburgh.metblogs.com/archives/2007/10/san_fransisco_looks_at_parking.phtml
==Parking Authority deals and dealmaking.==
The parking authority is open to deals with other partners, such as what happened at Lazarus. The city build a parking garage under the new retail store. Some of the subsidized benefits to the store can be justified if not hidden from the deal. 
Another interesting twist in deals are known as "air rights." The parking authority can build a parking garage in the sub-basement and ground floors. Then it crafts a deal to top off the building with additional stories. 
Selling air-rights is complicated and not what government should be doing.
PNC Firstside is another parking deal and bribe for expansion. The garages at PNC Firstside are built right next to a T-stop. Both the garage and the T-stop were part of the demands made by PNC Firstside. The city gave them too much. Those facilities are under-utilized.
==School Parking Passes==
Air rights. Who own the foundation, elevator, electrical, etc.
==Greyhound Bus Station proposal==