Bigger is not always better.

The switch to paid parking on certain downtown streets in July 2025 will mark the end of 48 years of free on-street parking.

Bellingham and Shoreline took major steps toward eliminating parking minimums for new housing construction citywide this week — the latest Washington cities to do so in an effort to boost housing supply. In Bellingham, City Council members voted 5-1 during a Monday committee meeting to support a proposal from Mayor Kim Lund to eliminate the parts of the city code that require developers to provide a certain number of parking spaces when building new housing. “Housing the people of this communi

# Today is the last day for public comments in the latest round of process around the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell to guide the next 20 years of city growth. Housing advocates are pushing the City to go bigger.

France recently announced a law that will require large parking lots to install solar canopies.

With meter maids tucking more citations under windshield wipers, we found the worst spots to park — so you can avoid them in the new year.

Assembly Bill 2097, which eliminates city parking mandates within a half-mile of transit has elicited fear in the minds of some decision makers and residents in Palo Alto. Will our retail areas suffer due to lack of parking? Will our neighborhoods be crowded with parked cars?

The mass rezoning paved the way for an estimated 82,000 units of housing over the next 15 years.

The City of Windsor is expecting some initial confusion as drivers and cyclists adjust to parking and bikes lane changes in the downtown area.

Adding to a growing body of research on the intersections between climate and housing policy, a new report prepared for the Colorado Energy Office looks at the impact of various land use policies on residential growth and greenhouse gas emissions…

# In a letter approved this week, the Seattle Planning Commission expressed disappointment that the draft One Seattle Comprehensive Plan doesn't go much beyond state mandates, and pushed for changes to make the housing plan bolder and more forward-thinking.

That was question asked during a panel discussion at the recent Smart City Expo in Barcelona where European transport leaders opened up.

In 2019, the city already voted to repeal parking minimums near MBTA transit stops, which accounts for the majority of Somerville.

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# On Monday, Bellingham joined the growing list of cities that have opted to eliminate parking mandates citywide. Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund and an allied city council have more housing reforms on deck.

Mandating parking with new development comes with negative consequences including a reduction in housing, higher home costs and an increase in congestion, a planner told members of the Missoula City Council on Wednesday.

The Binghamton City Council voted unanimously to approve the zoning reform legislation Wednesday. In recent years, cities across the country have implemented zoning reform to ease restrictions on housing development.

Increased housing supply created under the zoning reforms could bring an estimated 70,000 to 97,000 new transit riders to the city's subway, bus and commuter rail lines—bringing an additional $224,188,000 to $309,224,000 per year to the MTA's coffers, a new report found.

A handful of car sharing services have died in recent years. Blame the business model or people's lack

# In approving a unanimous update to its Comprehensive Plan, the Shoreline City Council is set to go well beyond the minimum requirements of state law in pursuit of creating additional housing options and more vibrant neighborhoods.

Purpose of Review Parking is a ubiquitous feature of the built environment, but its implications for public health are under-examined. This narrative review synthesizes literature to describe pathways through which parking may affect population health. Recent Findings We begin by contextualizing the issue, outlining key terminology, the sheer scale of land dedicated to parking, and the historical factors that led to this dominant land use. Next, we delineate four pathways linking parking with public health: 1) Promoting driving and car dependency, affecting air pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions, physical activity, traffic-related injuries and fatalities, and accessibility; 2) Creating impervious surfaces, with consequences for urban heat, flooding, water pollution, and green space; 3) Affecting housing affordability and associated health outcomes of this social determinant; and 4) Design, construction, and maintenance, the health impacts of which include on-street parking’s positive and negative impacts on safety for all roadway users, air-quality effects of parking’s construction and maintenance, and the potential for green parking lots to mitigate some health consequences of impervious surfaces. Summary While evidence supports each pathway, additional empirical research is needed to evaluate impacts of parking on public-health outcomes. As a dominant feature of the built environment with many health implications, parking warrants attention by public-health research and practice.

The City Plan Commission last week heard from 21 residents — all but two of whom voiced support for eliminating minimum parking requirements for new development — and determined they’d take up the matter again at a special-called meeting on Jan. 16.

The residential development landscape has changed considerably in the last few years. First, the state of Oregon mandated the elimination of exclusive sin

State moves toward mandating changes now under consideration in Evanston.

Colorado wants cities to reduce their use of parking minimums. Denver could go even further.

The Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio is planning to implement paid parking to its free lot starting in 2025.

A recent spate of tickets at Coit Tower’s parking lot points to the unusual parking situation around the iconic San Francisco tourist attraction.

Image Credit: Michael Anton. By Mark Chiusano There are countless ways to demonstrate the forever-controversial nature of alternate side parking (ASP) in New York City, but only one involves Mayor Ed Koch’s voice whining from a mechanical street sweeper. That was the gimmick the then-mayor unveiled in 1988 to encourage illegally parked cars to move, so the street sweepers could clean. “Get it outta here,” his tape-recorded voice implored.  It’s just one example of how alternate side parking – the requirement for

Edmonton council passed a bylaw hoping to make 120 parking lots around Downtown safer and better-looking by June 2026, or face closure.

Dallas residents will have to wait to see whether the city will move forward with citywide changes to off-street parking after the City Plan Commission deferred the issue Thursday. After divided comments on whether Dallas should eliminate broad requirements that developers build a certain number of off-street parking spaces, commissioners voted to keep the public hearing open until a special ...