Parking

'The only opposition usually comes from homeowners who fear the spillover of drivers parking on their residential streets,' says columnist

I love suburbs now, it's over.

The city doesn’t require multifamily developers to include fitness rooms, swimming pools or resident lounges in their buildings. But it does require them to include parking. Am I comparing apples to oranges? I think not. These amenities enhance quality of life for the people who use them but also make housing more expensive. For some […]

Let's start with parking requirements for new developments.

With most of the community board recommendations in, Streetsblog mapped where residents are saying "yes" to more housing and less parking.

Road space at the curb is a valuable public asset – and must be recognized as such. It doesn’t belong to cars

Anna Zivarts is a low-vision non-driver, a mom, and an advocate for transportation, housing affordability, and disability mobility rights. She was born with the neurological condition nystagmus — which, for her, means that she doesn’t drive. She gets around her city of Seattle mostly by foot, bike, and transit. She’s not alone; fully one third ... Read more

The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize denser housing to solve the country's home shortage.

Since the 1990s, Fairfax County planners have imagined turning Tysons into “a place where people want to be.” How’s that going? Let’s look at the state of walkability and bikeability in Tysons, and how to make it better.

Local governments that follow a “mindlessly pro-business” approach sacrifice community well-being in the name of commerce, but end up devastating their cities’ downtowns by misunderstanding what helps an area succeed economically. It’s time to realize that helping local businesses means helping the

These micro wastelands drain the life from cities. It’s time we imagine better.

We put too much trust in drivers to follow traffic laws. We can't have police at every dangerous intersection but we can use cameras.

Eric Diller says community needs to see true cost of parking in debate over bicycling lanes

We need to fix both systems, which were created by Big Gas and Big Auto so long ago that they feel like personal choices. A great essay by Kea Wilson.

As much development as we see, it’s simply not enough to keep up.

The city should reduce the amount of land devoted to cars, so more housing can be built.

Your thoughts on changes to parking minimums ranged from "hell no" to "absolutely" to "mixed feelings."

Op-ed: In the decade or so before driverless cars roll out en masse, lawmakers must take the time to develop regulations that maximize their benefits and minimize their harms.

Op-Ed: If we want to address barriers to access, and the public health and climate impacts of car-dependence, we must make it easier for non-drivers to get around our communities.

The city shouldn’t require parking that never gets used.

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"There is a real solution: end the off-street parking requirements mandated by archaic zoning laws enacted when gas was cheap and full of lead, elevated trains were being torn down, and flying cars were the future. With climate change now posing an existential threat, it is time to move on."

Cities often cling to parking requirements because Californians have come to expect abundant free parking. That comes at the expense of affordable housing.

If urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?

Governor Newsom should sign A.B. 2097

The expansion of highways will do far more harm than the expansion of mass transit will avert.

In most California cities, whenever developers construct a new building, local governments force them to provide a certain amount of parking as well. These rules – minimum parking requirement…

While driving extends our ability to move at high speed, it comes at the cost of almost every other kind of action.