After several inquiries I finally recieved an answer to the off street parking requirements for the South Waterfront zones and the answer is ...... Zero.

You heard that right folks... none, zip, zilch, nada. After all these years of bellyaching about Not Enough Parking downtown we're building another downtown with no required parking. Even Joe Hultquist, Mr. Mass Transit himself, says some parking should be required in new developments.

The astonishing thing is with all the public meetings and all the public input the possibility of NO REQUIRED PARKING never came up. Nor was it explained to the residents that Form Based Code meant that there was NO LIMIT to the number of units that could go into a building (other than minimum size requirements).

Needless to say I am quite disillusioned with this so called "Public Process" Oh yeah, we did get to keep our chain link fences and the SW-1 building height is 2 1/2 stories instead of 3 but that's about the extent of the public input.