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Download a copy of the January 2008 PSN flyer in .pdf format.

Download a copy of the Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods brochure.

From the Metropolitan Planning Commission:

The Manual was adopted by CUTS/MPO in December 2006. Context Sensitive Design for roadways is the concept of using physical debehaviorssign characteristics to encourage the types of road use and driver that are appropriate for the area through which the road or segment passes. The design manual describes and illustrates appropriate designs for future roads and selected gateways. It will also guide the enhancement of recently completed roadways.

To kick off the development of the manual, the MPC and consultants Walter Kulash, Ian Lockwood, Paul Moore and Avanish Pendharkar, from the firm of Glatting Jackson, conducted a three-day workshop at the MPC in July 2006 to educate local stakeholders and to solicit input.

Download the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission Context Sensitive Design Manual (2007). Warning: large file.

From the American Planning Association:

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says Donald Shoup in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be.

Free parking, Shoup argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion, but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world’s total oil production.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary.

Download Chapter One of Donald Shoup’s “The High Cost of Free Parking” (2005)