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The High Cost of Free Parking Books

PROJECT

Raising funds to gift Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise to local policy makers.

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

Balance transfer
-$810.90 USD
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Reimbursement #163155
+$30.00USD
Completed
Contribution #696157
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Total raised

$848.77 USD

Total disbursed

$848.77 USD

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About


The goal of this project is to raise funds to purchase a bulk order of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World to deliver to local elected officials in the Baltimore area.  The inspiration for this project comes from Paved Paradise itself, which relates the following vignette:  
In 2015 Minneapolis Planning Commissioner Chris Meyer bought 13 copies of the High Cost of Free Parking, 1 for each member of the city council.  By 2020 the City Council had opted to eliminate parking minimums city wide.

Paved Paradise as a gifted book improves upon The High Cost of Free Parking by being not only recently released, and therefore current on recent developments and policy advances around the country, but also more approachable to the average reader.  This project will allow us at Strong Towns Baltimore to not just summarize the arguments of parking reform, but allow our local legislators and executive branch leaders to take the journey on their own.  It's important that we try to provide this to all members of both the City and County councils as parking reform is really about good government, reducing inefficiencies and hidden subsidies - concepts that should cross partisan and ideological lines on the councils.

Our team

David House

One book for my council member

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Contributors


The High Cost of Free Parking Books is all of us

Our contributors 28

Thank you for supporting The High Cost of Free Parking Books.

Shaun

One book for my council member

$150 USD

Josh B

One book for my council member

$60 USD

Henry Cook

One book for my council member

$30 USD

County Council - Wade Kach

Zac Blanchard

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Charlie Smith

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Jeanne McCann

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Brandy Savarese

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Brian

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Adam T Jones

One book for my council member

$30 USD

Mark

One book for my council member

$30 USD

David House

One book for my council member

$30 USD