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The City of Ottawa is hitting the brakes on the idea of imposing parking ticket fines based on the driver's income or the value of the vehicle, saying the city doesn't have the power under existing legislation.

Larger Arizona cities won’t be able to limit backyard casitas to just one per home and will have to allow much more dense housing near city centers after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed two major housing bills on Tuesday.

Edmonton Journal readers speak out on Edmonton's parking payment app and property tax

New Zealand tends to focus on big infrastructural projects such as tunnels or light rail to change cities. But there are cheaper ways to add public spaces to urban design.

Free parking is often touted as a way to get people into downtowns. But many Memorial Day drivers in D.C. were oblivious to it in the first place.

If transportation departments and urban planning staff do not include the voices of nondrivers, they are unlikely to develop policies and infrastructure that will reflect the needs of their whole communities.

Councillors eye more pedestrianized downtown in the future

Parking brings in $3 billion a year for state and local governments. That's why they are using new technologies to help push parking reforms aimed at streamlining enforcement and increasing revenues and environmental friendliness.

They did it! In the final days of the 2024 legislative session, statewide parking reform snuck across the finish line in Colorado. HB 1304, which eliminates many residential parking mandates in the…

The docks of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are inundated with a high quantity of electric vehicles, mostly from China

San Francisco has a subculture of parking vigilantes. Frustrated with widespread illegal parking, most of all blocking sidewalks, these residents have taken it upon themselves to report vehicles to the city, often resulting in a parking ticket.

Part of the solution is to raise the price to park on the street to possibly push more people to parking garages and paid lots.

City engineers rely on faulty logic and misrepresentations to maintain the status quo. This was made blatantly clear in a recent letter from the City Engineers Association of Minnesota (CEAM) — and it’s why a growing number of engineers are breaking from the party line to support reform. Here are CE

The Minneapolis 2040 Plan, which sought to end single-family zoning citywide and improve housing affordability, could move forward without the threat of continued environmental lawsuits.  A couple paragraphs tucked into a 1400-page bill passed in the waning hours of the 2024 legislative session exempts comprehensive plans — which are guiding documents for cities’ zoning and […]

Do you know what it's like to have your housing be dependent on a country club membership that you can't afford? Renters across the United States do, as they're forced to pay for amenities like private parking spaces or pool access — even if they never use them.

Plus: Austin shrinks it's minimum lot sizes, Florida builds on past zoning reforms, and Arizona passes ADU and missing middle bills.

The interactive tool helps citizens and policymakers understand parking reform at a broader level and zero in on state-level legislation.

Other local governments and regions can learn from a range of strategies such as zoning changes, encouraging EVs and making freight systems more efficient.

Cities facing affordable housing challenges are becoming more open to making zoning changes that affect density.

Dallas City Council should approve the revised on-street parking and curb management policy. The plan will help manage valuable curb space and generate...

They paved paradise again and again and again.

A positive use for AI?

City officials and others are reconsidering how New Yorkers store their cars.

We can build better ways to get to and enjoy downtown.

Every inch of curb space in this crowded city is precious. So why are we giving so much of it away for free?

PetParker Canada offers ventilated smart pods that are bolted to the ground

Excelsior residents say parking is so competitive they have to block off spots with cones. Some neighbors say that's unfair.

In this multi-part series, we join an analysis of a novel database of municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States with an argument for the necessity of a tenant-inflected zoning reform, as a method and approach to ground future zo

Under the current model, anyone disputing a ticket has to wait for an appearance in Provincial Offences Court before a justice of the peace.