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Transportation Planning Summer Internship Opportunity
Studio Davis is growing! We’ve got some exciting new projects in the door and have an immediate opening for a summer intern in transportation planning. See the description below and contact us to apply. Modality: Mostly remote, with some on-site responsibilities in Portland, Oregon City, and Cornelius Term/Pay information: The term of this position will…
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Dispatch from the Oregon Active Transportation Summit
I was thrilled to attend The Street Trust’s annual Oregon Active Transportation Summit this past week, one of my favorite events on the calendar for diving into the weeds of the planning and funding of walking, biking, and rolling! Making this year’s edition particularly special is that it was the first time the event has…
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Parking in Punxsutawney
It is February 2nd, a date that is famous around the country because the small Pennsylvania borough of Punxsutawney finds its parking system completely overwhelmed for a morning. Today, this community of 5,000 swells to as many as 40,000. One does not have to be a magical soothsaying rodent to predict that this will turn…
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Why Seasonal Free Parking is a Ho-Ho-Horrible Gift
“Free storage offered to shoppers by merchandising interests is an economic error and acts as a boomerang not only to the merchant, but to regular storage garage enterprises.” I recently had some merry reasons to spend an afternoon in downtown Collingswood, one of South Jersey’s most vibrant and charming downtown strips. I rode my bike…
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Oregon Main Street Conference Hat-tip
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Oregon Main Street Conference, which has quickly become one of my favorite events on the calendar. The conference presents a terrific opportunity to learn about what’s going on in the smaller cities and towns throughout the state. From Portland to Port Orford and Bandon to Condon,…
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Quick Hits and Takeaways from The New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference
I am belated in doffing my cap to APA NJ and NJ Future for a fantastic job organizing and hosting the 2023 New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference. Studio Davis was proud to be a sponsor of this event—the first in-person event since the two groups joined forces three years ago—and it was a pleasure…
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Happy 50th Birthday to Oregon Senate Bill 100!
Last week, I had the privilege of attending a seminar hosted by Portland State University’s Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Senate Bill 100, Oregon’s pioneering land use and planning bill. For the uninitiated, SB 100 was enacted in 1973 and revolutionized the state’s approach to land use planning by introducing…
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Studio Davis Selected for Newberg Parking Plan
We at Studio Davis are excited to announce that we are beginning work on a new parking analysis and planning project in Newberg, Oregon! As we always say, “the root of all parking problems is a great place,” and Newberg is certainly that. With an amazing food and wine scene, we’re thrilled to have the…
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Studio Davis to Plan Pioneer Square Parking Garage
We are pleased to share that Studio Davis has been chosen by the City of Portland to plan a much needed parking structure on the site of Portland’s Pioneer Square, which will return this formerly world-class parking ramp to its previous stature! “It’s clear that the experiment to use this central site as some sort…
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Winter Workshop Recap: Highlights and Reflections
We are belated in posting in appreciation, but Studio Davis was thrilled to be part of February’s Winter Workshop hosted by Oregon ITE. Our founder, Brian Davis, was selected to speak about the recent parking plans we developed for Yachats and Forest Grove, OR. During the talk, we shared some basic strategies, tools in our…
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Brian Presents to Keweenaw Peninsula Working Group
A few weeks ago I had the honor of presenting for a webinar series organized by colleagues at Montana State’s Western Transportation Institute. The goal of the series is to provide technical support on a variety of transportation issues to a working group of planners and professionals from Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, and I presented on…
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Parking Reform Happy Hour at TRB
I was happy to make it to Washington DC for a little sliver of TRB earlier this month, and delighted to cosponsor a happy hour for our good friends at the Parking Reform Network. I think it’s fair to say the event was a smashing success. We completely packed the patio at Calico, a hip…
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Freeway fighting
Longtime followers know that I am a longtime opponent of plans to widen Interstate 5 through Portland’s Rose Quarter. For these last few years, I’ve been privileged to work alongside many of the smartest activists in Portland in an effort to shed some light on the potential impacts of the project and the questions surrounding…
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The Simple Logic of Parking Planning
As I wrap up parking plans for Forest Grove and Yachats—the former a city of 25,000 on the edge of the Portland metro area with a downtown that has started to pop in recent years, the latter a city of 1,000 on the Oregon Coast with a crush of seasonal demand—I can’t help but appreciate…
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Webinar: The Inside Story of Oregon’s Big Parking Reforms
We are PLUM DEE-LIGHTED to be sponsoring a terrific webinar from our good friends at the Parking Reform Network. Join us on Wednesday, September 21st at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific for this webinar and read on for a description. Free Zoom Registration is required. Oregon recently enacted the most aggressive statewide parking reforms in the…
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Uptown Charlotte’s On-Street Parking Gets Its Due
A hearty congratulations to the City of Charlotte for increasing parking meter rates from $1.00 to $1.50—the first increase since 1997!— on July 1, and adding Saturday as a paid parking day come September! I’m beyond proud to have led the parking study that got the ball rolling. Charlotte was my biggest data collection effort…
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Parking Demand Explained with Camels
Sometimes, how you present the information is more important than the information you present. When I started doing large-scale parking demand analyses as the Great Recession lifted, the “industry standard” was to graph parking demand using bar charts. Each hour that demand is observed is plotted on the horizontal axis, and for each hour a bar…
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How Much Parking Is Enough?
Probably the single most common question that I’m asked is some variation of, “How much parking do I need?” Sometimes it’s a question about a new development that needs to satisfy some archaic requirement: “How many spaces do I need to build, and is there any way to reduce that since they’re so unbelievably expensive to construct?”…
