With help from the City, Portland businesses have been exchanging car parking spaces for on-street bike parking corrals, and now new residential developments are also making the choice to build for active transportation.
Daybreak Cohousing in North Portland is hosting an open-house this Saturday, April 17. Among other eco-design attributes, the community is celebrating a development that accommodates 60 bikes in an indoor bike parking room and hosts not one car parking space.
Cohousing is a movement in which residents share community decision-making and resources with their neighbors. At Daybreak one of the community focuses is sustainability. The development has won several accolades for green design, and is purposefully sited in a walkable/bikeable neighborhood with good access to transit and car sharing.
With the City of Portland’s 2010 update to the code requirements for bike parking spaces in apartments and condo buildings (now 1.1 spaces per unit in most of the City), it is great to have examples like Daybreak that are ahead of the curve.
