First in a series
Do the creative parking panaceas that City Hall has developed for the heavily oversubscribed Hayden Tract offer a potential solution to growing parking problems elsewhere in Culver City?
Kevin Lachoff was one realtor who came away from Wednesday’s sold-out Future of Culver City panel discussion convinced that parking is a — or the — premier headache for the community.
“We heard time and again that parking is one of the biggest concerns for Culver City’s growth,” said Mr. Lachoff, one of the panelists.
Will new businesses help to alleviate the thorniness of cramped space or should it be addressed immediately?
“The city has made efforts to address the parking issue, particularly in the Hayden Tract, with creating a parking district, by allowing alternative parking methods, like parking stackers, automated parking systems, valet service and compact stalls.
“All of those, over time, should help increase parking supply,” Mr. Lachoff said.
More than half a century ago when City Hall’s needs and vision were drastically different from today, the world thought differently, too.
Surveying the Hayden Tract layout, Mr. Lachoff of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank said that “these buildings originally were put up as industrial buildings with maybe one parking space per thousand square feet.
“(Fellow panelist Brad Gross) mentioned that the reality is that even three parking spaces per thousand square feet, to code, is not sufficient for what tenants want, which is five or six parking spaces per thousand feet.”
(To be continued)
