Parking

In March, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto introduced a bill that would change the Pittsburgh city zoning code to end the current requirement that new single-family...

“Guess what, Gersh, a lot of people still have cars,” the mayor said sarcastically.

By Neil Heller with Cary Westerbeck Neil is an urban planner at Neighborhood Workshop in Portland, Oregon and faculty of the Incremental Development Alliance. Currently sporting an 80-day…

Mayor Karácsony proposed the introduction of a progressive parking fee system for downtown Budapest that would make the first 15 minutes free of charge.

Op-ed: Polling makes it clear: Those who can pay more, should.

A.B, 3153 would allow housing developers who provide parking for either bikes or car-share in new buildings to reduce car parking requirements

This piece is the third in a four-part series. It summarizes findings from a report written by Hannah Hoyt, published by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America.

Harvard Medical School study comparing hospital car parks in 2019 to 2018 finds spike in October

Even when developers build transit-oriented development, sometimes they don’t get it

Despite the fact that you are literally dying to see Tua Tagovailoa throw a pass wearing the aqua and orange, the Miami Dolphins can’t play football to entertain you right now.

Despite ample research on many impacts of abundant parking, to date little attention has focused on potential significant consequences for urban heat.

“Plans… are in full swing. We are designing a permit process that will allow not just restaurants but bars, retail, and personal service businesses to access the right-of-way.”— Margaux Weeke, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s office The food scene in Portland needs no introduction, but it does need more space. For restaurant, coffee shop and food cart Read More »

Every summer, Philly residents can apply for permits to turn their block into a playground for kids, no cars allowed. This year, the rules are changing.

Berkeley is moving fast to expand outdoor dining

The largest parking lot in the world has nearly 20,000 places, and can be found at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada.

Minimum parking requirements are expensive, waste space, and waste opportunities. Edmonton seems poised to do something about it.

“This could be the best block party in the history of New York, but if we don’t get this right in the next three months, there will be a complete collapse of the tax base of the city,&#…

You might be seeing parking space–sized seating areas pop up outside of restaurants, cafes, and more all over the city.

The needs of the logistics sector have been ignored by the Government in its guidance for managing urban streets during the coronavirus lockdown, says the Freig

Sunshine Mills Winery converts its parking lot to drive-in theater.

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is asking San Francisco leaders to allow restaurants to temporarily expand outdoors as shelter-in-place lifts.

This post is part of a special series on curb management and COVID-19. A joint effort of IPMI, Transportation for America, and ITE’s Complete Streets Council, this series strives to document the immediate curbside-related actions and responses to COVID-19, as well as create a knowledge base of strategies that communities can use to manage the curbside during future emergencies.

By Chrissy Mancini Nichols As published in ITE’s February issue.   Click here  to read the magazine and/or article (found on pages 46-49). The first minimum parking requirement was established in 1923 in Columbus, Ohio. By the 1950s, parking minimums had grown to be

Our “Are We Doing This Right?” series returns to take on parking minimums. (There’s a lot not to love.)

In an interview, the guru of progressive parking policy reflects on his decades of research and writing, which transformed how cities look at the curb.

The 2018 Emerging Trends in Parking report by the International Parking Institute points to a growing need to think of parking facilities as more than just places to park cars.

As Palo Alto considers lowering its parking requirements to spur production of multifamily housing, a newly released study indicates that scores of parking spaces at local apartment buildings currently go unused -- a fact that has some residents crying foul.