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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They want an 8000 car parking complex AND a metro stop (that they won’t pay for). Nope. I’m in favor of the stadium but with only the amount of parking that we have at the Nationals stadium (around 1800 I believe). It would be an absolute crime to hog up that land with parking garages for that sit empty except for 8 days/year. [/quote]
Why would they need a new Metro stop? There’s one there already.[/quote]

Federal handout for WMATA. Congress will be asked to fund it, they will fund 80%, and the localities will be forced to pick up the remainder. [/quote]

That doesn’t answer the question as to why a new Metro stop is needed. It isn’t.[/quote]
+1 This was my question and I still don’t understand why you would need one and where it would go. The new stadium isn’t much bigger (10,000 seats?) than RFK, it looks to be situated in the same part of the site, and the one Metro station was always sufficient even for sold out games there - I went to a lot of them. Do they want one halfway between Potomac Avenue and Stadium-Armory, at the entrance to the DC Jail? Or north further into Kingman Park?[/quote]

I believe a metro stop was proposed years ago for Kingman Park at the corner of Oklahoma and Benning, but the neighborhood opposed. If there, it could meet the bus/streetcar commuters that come down H St/NOMA. I used to live in KP so really wished there was one there, would be nice for the neighborhood if they did add one. Honestly wouldn't even be that hard, they just need to adjust the tunnel slightly under the parking lot/fields, not like they would have to navigate it around existing housing.[/quote]

Man I bet I know exactly the type of “neighbors” who opposed this. [/quote]

Likely the same type as those that demand no parking nowadays.  [/quote]

No one I know of is demanding "no parking." Rather, the movement is to let developers provide the amount of parking they think is appropriate, not requiring them to include more parking than they want to build.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/free-parking-reform
"Those laws, also referred to as parking minimums or mandates, blanket municipal codes in the United States, forcing builders to include a substantial quantity of parking with every new home, office, shop, or school. Those parking spaces cost a lot of money to build, and they sit empty most of the time."[/quote]

Parking is essential infrastructure, just like roads, and the metro. When do developers ever willingly cover their share of infrastructure required for a development?? Parking minimums ensure that developers don’t screw over the community and that they internalize the societal cost of their development decisions. Eliminating development standards and zoning forces the community and local governments to bear 100% impact on public infrastructure associated with new development. Developers don’t care how much parking is actually needed to adequately service their stadium. They will build the absolute bare minimum and extort consumers by charging people $50 to park cars on days they have events. Then the surrounding neighborhood and communities experience the consequences when residents suffer from an epidemic of illegal street parking and businesses cannot find parking for their employees. [/quote]

Lol no. if they want a stadium surrounded by parking, they can stay in Maryland. [/quote]

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