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Build a bipartisan coalition. Launch a pilot project. Speak to the core issues facing your community. That’s how Spokane, Washington, was able to eliminate costly parking mandates. Here's the full story.

Eliminating mandates to create spots for cars is key to creating more apartments in the mayor’s sweeping City of Yes proposal heading to a crucial vote Thursday — but a compromise that could halve new housing is in the works.

“This just confirms the old saying, ‘Cars don’t spend money, people spend money,’” said one open street advocate.

Small-scale neighborhood retail is staging a post-Covid revival in many cities, thanks to a mix of zoning reforms, shopping trends and local incentives.

The Dallas City Plan Commission (CPC) is set to receive a briefing on the proposed Off-Street Parking & Loading Code Amendment during its meeting

The Parking Management Jump Start Guide is offered by the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) and funded by the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities program. Printing is funded by Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management program, a joint effort of DLCD and the Oregon Department of Transportation. DLCD would like to thank the Guide’s Project Management Team and the city staff members from throughout Oregon who participated in our outreach process for their invaluable contributions to this Guide.

We’ve created a list of six essential books that will engage you with the key issues surrounding all aspects of parking reform.

/PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART), a proposed aerial gondola system from Union Station to Dodger Stadium, in collaboration with Wired...

The City of Sacramento is asking for the community's input on a plan that would limit vehicle parking spaces in certain areas and increase bicycle parking in new developments.

A Sarnia resident is calling on City Council to replace parking minimums with “parking maximums” in residential developments, aiming to boost affordability and sustainability.

# Despite being a longtime parking reform leader, Seattle is set to require off-street parking, even as it unlocks significant housing capacity near transit. This will make housing harder to build.

You’ll soon be looking at a $40 citation for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, as new state law is kicking in requiring 20 feet of “daylight” between parked cars and crosswalks, though they won’t be handing out the fines until January 1, 2025.

Municipal officials in Brockville are looking to re-establish a cash-in-lieu of parking bylaw that would apply to the central downtown waterfront area of the city.

OGDEN — Ben Nadolski is approaching the end of just his first year as Ogden’s mayor, but there have already been several policy milestones. After last speaking with him in June, the Standard-Examiner sat down with Nadolski to discuss the path the city has taken in the months since, where progress has been made and […]

Mayor Bruno Marchand will soon make good on one of his election promises by offering free parking in the streets of Quebec City for veterans. It begins in the spring of 2025.

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Students say they have missed lectures and lost sleep because of struggles to find parking spaces.

Analysis: Modifications the mayor's City of Yes housing plan will result in less housing, experts say.

Owners of buildings with 10 or more parking spots will be required to provide EV chargers for tenants by 2035 at the latest.

Vehicles were given a 25-minute grace period before being ticketed, but the new legislation removes that protection.

The structure at 148 Edgewood Avenue was built in 1926 by the company now known as Georgia Power.

Last week, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to combat reckless driving in parking lots, a longstanding noise and public safety issue for many eastern

Kroenke's development plan gets a win, but its real test is Monday.

Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.

One local advocate said the whole point of the pilot was to test the idea of charging for valuable curb space on a large scale. So what happened?

New Urban research shows high-density housing in Los Angeles is disproportionately concentrated near high-traffic roads compared with single-family homes, exposing apartment residents to the adverse health effects of pollution.

There’s a powerful but obscure force operating in New York and elsewhere: the parking minimum.

Missoula has unveiled the draft of its future land use plan as city leaders look to address growth as far out as 2045.