Parking benefit districts, which ensure money from meters goes directly toward local projects, have been implemented elsewhere in Massachusetts.

The City Council is considering implementation of a pilot program that would reinvest metered parking fees back into a neighborhood for transportation-related improvements. The program would be tested in Roslindale Village.

Where curb parking is overcrowded, drivers who are searching for a rare open curb space congest traffic, pollute the air, and produce carbon dioxide. To avoid these problems, some cities have established Parking Benefit Districts that charge market prices for curb parking and spend the revenue to pay for public services on the metered blocks. A case study of Manhattan’s Upper West Side found that charging market prices for the currently unmetered curb spaces would eliminate 22 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per block per year and yield at least $1,025 per household per year to improve public services.

Free parking may soon be a thing of the past along Maple in Benson and not everybody’s happy about it.

When Evan Kindler agreed to write a report on Parking Benefit Districts for an internship project, he didn’t know that he’d catch the parking reform bug.

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The city could make billions for local communities with flexible, market-driven permits.

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On Jan. 1, the city of Bend implemented a new parking permit pilot program in the Old Bend neighborhood, near Delaware and Florida avenues.

Excessive parking rules put cars before people—hiking home prices and pollution.

A case study in boring, no-name reports meaning a whole lot for a city’s smart growth plans.

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Below is an email I recently sent to Council Members Chad West, Adam Medrano, and David Blewett proposing legislation to enable the…