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Spacial installed two tiny homes in the parking lot, which is currently underutilized as BART continues to welcome riders back to the system.

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

Cities like Los Angeles worked fast during the COVID-19 pandemic to radically change the way we think about sidewalks, curbs and parking areas. Many of the changes government and businesses made are here to stay.

In a committee meeting earlier this week, a majority of City Councilors endorsed a policy order calling on the city to eliminate minimum parking requirements from its zoning rules. The policy order…

The San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer reveal "Street Room" installations for an in-progress neighborhood adjacent to Giants' stadium.

A new study finds congestion charging and creating car-free streets and separated bike lanes have been most effective at reducing car use in European cities.

Eliminating parking minimums for new developments can lead to more affordable, accessible and inclusive housing.

Vehicle owners without parking spaces are about to have another problem amid skyrocketing fuel prices, and intense traffic in urban areas. Here are the areas where the requirement may become mandatory.

We’re launching a series to both celebrate positive examples of ‘people-first’ streets – and to point out the most dangerous and unpleasant roads in our backyards.

The city famous for its bike lanes is struggling to cut car pollution. Now Portland faces a major battle over whether to keep expanding highways.

As concerts, conventions, and sporting events rebound from the pandemic, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is looking to shift the way people travel to some of the city’s largest event venues. The Lloyd district is home to three of Portland’s major venues: the Moda Center, the Oregon Memorial Coliseum, and the Oregon Convention Center. When all three venues have events on the same night, well over 10,000 people flock to the Lloyd neighborhood, causing...

On days two and three of the YIMBYtown conference at Portland State University, parking and land-use experts from across the country shared insights on how our national overabundance of car Read More »

Housing reformers from all over the country are currently in Portland, Oregon, for YIMBYtown, a national conference about housing abundance and affordability. Last week I was lucky to catch up with one of the panelists, Leah Bojo. Bojo worked as the policy director for Chris Riley, a city councilor in Austin. In that time the […]

In our second event in our series "Zoning in Charlottesville," UVA Planning Professor Dr. Andrew Mondschein presented on "The High Cost of Mandatory Parking...

The state land use board provisionally approved the rules but left room for tweaks by July.

This year, California has a unique opportunity to grapple with the consequences of one of the most misguided planning ideas: parking minimums. For

The debate over parking with new development is everlasting in Missoula, where land is both limited and expensive. Using it to park cars is costly, and it may fall out of vogue as ride share and public transportation grow to provide new mobility options.

A local group of builders and community activists say they have a creative and cost-efficient plan to get thousands of homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles and into safe spaces immediatel…

A.B. 2097 and A.B. 1778 illustrate that a powerful approach to addressing the overlapping problems of affordable housing and sustainable transportation can be to solve both at once.

City Council Member Lincoln Restler offers his plan to solve the problem.

Mandatory parking rules make housing more expensive. California’s legislature should undo them.

Zoning reform policies that boost economic development, promote housing, and bust the myth that reducing parking spaces hurts businesses.

Toronto’s motor champions still operate under the delusion cars are crucial to urban mobility, instead of mainly getting in the way of better options.

Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases

Bill from Senator Portantino would offer a tax credit to people who do not own cars

Free parking at work should be tax-exempt only if commuters who don't drive to work are offered a benefit of equivalent value.

So why do transportation leaders spend so much time drafting “pedestrian master plans” and “bike master plans” without accompanying “car master plans” aimed at b…