(Parking permit blocks. Image: Parkadelphia)

Council President Darrell Clarke is pushing a really damaging bill that would double mandatory minimum parking requirements for certain zoning categories.

(The City is forgoing $3,208,000 to subsidize parking on E. Passyunk Avenue)

Philadelphia owns more vacant property than any of our peer cities, and in recent times, politicians have been trying to inventory what we have, and offload some of it. 

While we haven't always agreed with Council President Darrell Clarke's politics in the past, we strongly agree with his sentiment that Philadelphia city government should look to use our existing resources better if we're expecting a hostile urban policy environment under the Trump administration and a conservative supermajority in the Pennsylvania legislature.