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Sharing Your Car (in Oregon)
Oregon could become the next state to pave the way for peer-to-peer car sharing companies, which allow people to rent out their personal vehicles when they’re not using them (which is usually more than 90 percent of the time). It’s a common sense and entrepreneurial idea that we’ve championed here at Sightline for a long time. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you need to rent a car for a...Read more » -
Pimp Your Ride III, Oregon Edition
We’ve been talking for years about the concept of personal car sharing, which allows a car owner whose vehicle sits idle most of the time to rent it out to someone who needs to run errands on four wheels. (As we’ve described it before, think of it as plugging your car into the Zipcar network when you’re not using it.) It’s an entrepreneurial idea with lots of benefits—reducing pollution and...Read more » -
Free Parking Versus the Free Market
Conservative Northwest think tanks, I am calling you out. I want you guys to talk about parking policy. Yeah, you heard me: parking policy. By my count, there are 5 prominent right-leaning, market-oriented think tanks in the Northwest: Discovery Institute and Washington Policy Center in Seattle; Evergreen Freedom Foundation in Olympia; Cascade Policy Institute in Portland; and Fraser Institute in Vancouver, BC. Each of them prominently features a devotion to free markets...Read more » -
Parking Paradigm Shift?
Editor’s note: This post was contributed by Todd Litman, author of “Parking Management Best Practices,” and founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. For more information see his free summary report (pdf), Parking Management: Strategies, Evaluation and Planning. A great example of the maxim “no free lunch” is the common struggle over parking. Motorists often assume that parking should be abundant and free at nearly every...Read more » -
Washington Bill Would Boost In-law Apartments Throughout the State
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The Vast Potential of Pairing Transit and Homes in Washington State
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New Washington Bill Would Legalize More Homes and Businesses by Transit
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Washington’s 2023 Middle Housing Bill, Explained
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Sightline Institute’s Giving Tuesday Spotlights
Since 2020, Sightline’s Development team has focused Giving Tuesday, the national day of philanthropy, on highlighting organizations in our local communities. Guided by the principles of community-centric fundraising, we believe that Sightline’s mission of creating a global model of sustainability can only happen when the whole community is strong. In the list below, our staff has suggested some organizations that are close to their hearts. We hope that Sightline supporters...Read more »
