The city of Eureka commissioned a study in 2022 that found that parking in downtown Eureka is well below max capacity.įernandez noted he was interested in seeing how the city would pay for any improvements and wanted to look into ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the city. If parking is needed, he said lots should be greened up to reduce the amount of pollution in the form of heat sinks and air pollution.Ī ballot initiative is in the works from a Security National Properties affiliated group trying to preserve the parking lots in downtown and Old Town Eureka, where the city intends to have developers build affordable housing.īurden said that a parking study should be performed as soon as possible and the lots to be replaced with something usable by the people that live there. “I also strongly urge people to get rid of their off-street parking as soon as they can, as much as they can,” he said. He said walking further from home was more common in past generations because city design was friendly to people. He showed images of projects he worked on that added parking, medians and crosswalks in areas previously where lanes of traffic were placed. He argued that car-centric city planning with multi-lane streets are less safe, more expensive and discourages people from going outside and staying active. Overall, he encouraged cities to decide on what the communities value and make changes based on this input, rather than leaving the design up to developers of the past. Mario Fernandez, a Eureka city council member, attended the audit near Old Town and noted that Burden suggested more sidewalk ramps, increased width of sidewalks, improved line of sight of the area and general consistency across the walking environment of this area of the city.īurden spoke on the importance of walkability during his presentation and the specific changes that he has made over his career. Other nearby audits include McKinleyville, Arcata and Blue Lake. These were performed on Sunday, and Burden noted at the presentation the walks were well-attended, especially for a weekend. The three walk audits in Eureka were around Old Town, Broadway and Wabash Avenue and Manila at the crossing to state Route 255. “Here’s a fairly simple principle and that is - stop over-building for the car, and start building for people and place,” he said at the presentation. Burden has been performing a number of walk and bike audits in Humboldt County recently and presented his ideas about city design in the Wharfinger building. Dan Burden, described as an authority on creating walkable communities, gave a presentation Monday night on methods to make cities more “people-centered,” by changing the design of cities.
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