Church parking has been/was a big issue in the DC for years, predating bike lanes. In short, DC residents don't like it when streets are double-parked by cars with Maryland plates on Sunday mornings. The District gov't was seen as more deferential to *former* residents than *current* residents.
I'm nowhere near DC, but this seems to be an issue anywhere a church was built before modern notions of parking minimums.
I'm in a quiet suburb and there's a historic church down the street from me - with a decent size parking lot - that still causes overflow onto the surrounding streets (often ignoring posted "no parking" or "resident parking only" signs).
This is something where the church could (should?) show love to their literal neighbors, by working out new solutions. Maybe encouraging carpooling, or offering shuttle service to a parking lot farther away before & after services?
Repurposing of former strip mall and parking lot parcels into multistory multi-family residential seems to be the cornerstone of the Santa Ana, California version of infill development! Unfortunately, the site of the former Laguna Hills Mall has been in some state of demolition for over 5 years at this point with at least one false start that would've been not much more than a contemporary, open-air version of its predecessor.
Church parking has been/was a big issue in the DC for years, predating bike lanes. In short, DC residents don't like it when streets are double-parked by cars with Maryland plates on Sunday mornings. The District gov't was seen as more deferential to *former* residents than *current* residents.
I'm nowhere near DC, but this seems to be an issue anywhere a church was built before modern notions of parking minimums.
I'm in a quiet suburb and there's a historic church down the street from me - with a decent size parking lot - that still causes overflow onto the surrounding streets (often ignoring posted "no parking" or "resident parking only" signs).
This is something where the church could (should?) show love to their literal neighbors, by working out new solutions. Maybe encouraging carpooling, or offering shuttle service to a parking lot farther away before & after services?
Repurposing of former strip mall and parking lot parcels into multistory multi-family residential seems to be the cornerstone of the Santa Ana, California version of infill development! Unfortunately, the site of the former Laguna Hills Mall has been in some state of demolition for over 5 years at this point with at least one false start that would've been not much more than a contemporary, open-air version of its predecessor.