Waste of money. Waste of space.

How obscure parking rules have misshaped our communities and opportunities for better options. [long] Garages and driveways are the primary entrance to this Tigard, OR apartment complex. Photo credit Brett VA. Parking rules buried in city land-use codes have surprisingly pernicious effects. Requirements that builders provide ample quotas of off-street parking spaces worsen traffic, multiply collisions, push up housing prices, dampen business profitability, amplify sprawl, and pollute both air and water. Parking rules are a surprisingly potent hidden force shaping—or misshaping—our communiti...

Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing. What that could mean for cities in Washington and Oregon.

Portland's own analysis shows that bans on car-free homes are catastrophic for Portland households who seek affordable housing.

L.A. already has 6 million parking spaces. We need more homes for people, not cars.

Rising land costs and changing consumer behaviors have conspired against “over-parking” at retail venues. One developer is bucking the trend.

Mintwood Real Estate founder Katy Slade suggests tweaks to off-street parking requirements

BPDA planners approved 59 new development projects that include the construction of 5,080 more parking spaces in the City of Boston.

The City of Miami eliminated its parking requirement for small-scale development in 2015. Small-scale projects in Little Havana, Wynwood, Allapattah and Edgewater are rising thanks to it.

The city’s new rules repeal minimum parking requirements for most of Somerville and allow backyard cottages—including tiny homes—among myriad other changes.

A newly-passed overhaul of Somerville’s zoning laws will eliminate requirements for off-street parking across most of the city.

On a brisk Saturday morning in November, a group of two dozen cyclists pauses in front of a four-story apartment complex in East Austin. The Terrace at Oak Springs, run by the nonprofit Integral Care, opened in September to provide …

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Licensed Real Estate Broker Mark Powell joined KUSI to discuss the impact of San Diego’s parking reforms. The parking reforms allows builders to develop units without parking to lower housing costs. San Diego City Council voted to reform parking to help reduce traffic and increase housing affordability. Categories: Good Morning San Diego, In Studio Guests

Winter Park city commissioners approved changes this week to the city's land development code aimed at curbing downtown parking problems.

The city will leave it up to businesses to decide how many parking spaces they need in two center-city neighborhoods.

The idea is to make development cheaper and encourage people to use greener modes of transport—but will that be the case?

Santa Monica has long strived to be one of the most walkable places in Southern California.

Downtown L.A. follows Lancaster, Santa Monica, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, and Cincinnati in eliminating unneeded parking requirements.

We all need a place to live in. For many families, housing remains one of the biggest, and most critical, monthly expenses, one that has an impact on everything from their health to their children’s education. Cities must ensure that residents have access to housing that is both affordable, well-maintained, and has good access to jobs and services. This is the one policy that policymakers should make a priority to get it right.

Houston is probably not destined to be among the world’s most walkable cities. Between the mind-melting heat, the ankle-breaking sidewalks, the criss-crossing freeways and the seemingly endless sprawl, getting around by foot isn’t easy to do. Still, there’s no reason to succumb to nihilism. So I welcomed the Houston City Council’s vote last week expanding the city’s “market-based parking area” to cover parts of Midtown, Montrose and East Downtown, as well as downtown’s Central Business District. It’s a relatively modest reform, to be clear. The change will exempt some new developments in th...

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.” — Lewis Mumford, 1958 One of the unintended consequences of car-oriented cities is the sprawl created by cars that no...

Researchers have found that requiring more space for cars encourages less dense and more expensive housing development.

Commission rejects staff suggestion, calls policy, which affects transit areas only, visionary

Plan approved by Minneapolis city council also includes taller apartment buildings near transit and a historic abolition on all off-street parking quotas.

where will they park? they won’t

Orange County’s housing task force wants to loosen decades-old zoning codes and give bigger incentives to developers, in hopes of adding 30,000 much-need units over the next 10 years.

Parking minimums are under siege and it's a very good thing. Most buildings in most cities and towns across the globe are required by la...

It’s easy to claim “We have too much parking” but to prove it? These Boston area planners were up to the challenge, surveying over 200 apartment buildings’ parking lots. What they found… might not shock you.

In an effort to encourage people to ditch their cars, Emeryville may scrap a long-standing requirement that developers provide ample off-street parking spaces for their buildings — if any at …