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DC has dialed back parking enforcement during the pandemic. Avoiding a parking ticket feels great, but making parking easier comes with some troubling consequences.

Underutilized parking lots are a costly waste. By managing parking more efficiently, cities can free up land to house people rather than cars.

Hartford city councilors on Wednesday advanced a measure that would impose major fee hikes on downtown parking lot operators, despite fervent opposition from major center-city investors, and Mayor Luke Bronin, who called the policy "misguided." Members of a city council subcommittee voted 6-1 -- with Councilor Shirly Surgeon voting against -- to put the measure on the full council's Jan. 25 meeting agenda with a favorable recommendation for passage. But city councilors added the caveat that the higher fees will not kick in until Jan. 1, 2022, rather than immediately.

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With the wild fluctuations in the stock market and unpredictability in many cyclical real estate sectors, investing in parking facilities can offer reliable, predictable income for decades.

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.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell today signed a long-awaited package of climate legislation that will help reduce carbon emissions and save money for residents and the City. The three bills address parking requirements, the role of the resilience office and “benchmarking”...

Mexico City charges fees for excess parking supply and your city should too. More car parking in our cities is an invitation for more cars and the congestion, pollution, and sprawl that those cars …

The climate and COVID crises prove that our city and state have moved too slowly and timidly toward fair, safe and sustainable public space and transit infrastructure. Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo must prioritize transit on our streets to permit safe travel during COVID-19 and future pandemics while advancing a just recovery.

Since the pandemic hit, car ownership has soared, stoking tensions over parking spots. Advocacy groups for mass transit don’t have much sympathy.

(WSB photo: 44th/Oregon lot) For years, we've been reporting on the West Seattle Junction Association's struggle to keep the

The latest reduction comes after the local planning and building committee also relaxed requirements for each new home to have its own parking space.

The city has barely made any headway on changes intended to combat rampant parking placard abuse that Mayor Bill de Blasio promised nearly two years ago, officials have admitted. Digital stickers — pitched in February 2019 as a cure to prevent holders from switching placards from vehicle to vehicle — have reached only a tiny […]

So complete was his connection with the city that even physical sites with no obvious external association with Prince now seem intimately connected to him.

Marquette Av. parking lot made famous by Prince is expected to become offices.

For micromobility to rise to the next level, we must make the public space provisions to ensure that riding a bike or e-scooter is as safe and convenient as driving a car.

Bozeman is in the process of rolling out a phone app that can be used to pay for parking at the city’s downtown garage.

Volkswagen has been prototyping an autonomous charging robot for electric cars. The idea is that the robot "lives" in a docking station--located in a parking garage, for instance--alongside multiple battery packs on wheels, all plugged into the wall and charging. When an electric car is parked in the facility, and

A University of Minnesota study is looking to see if combo contracts will change commuting behavior.

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Here's a shot of an edge city from the new SimCity. Notice what's missing? (Source: BLDGBLOG) From Geoff Manaugh's interview of the new SimCity's designer, Stone Librande: Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships? Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the […]

Season 1 Episode 43: A DISCUSSION W/ DONALD SHOUP ABOUT HIS THREE FOUNDATIONAL PARKING REFORMS In this episode, John has a fascinating conversation with Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA about how strategic parking policy reforms can help create healthy, vibrant communities.

Donald Shoup, FACIP, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, discusses parking minimums, paid parking and Pearl Harbor.

Starting January 4, residents will no longer have to visit the parking office at Kings Street Garage to receive visitor permits.

Town officials say this had to be done because parking pass sales were down significantly this year.

And Austin pursues an anti-displacement transit plan and more in this week's The Mobile City.