Parking

When Steve Jobs pitched Apple’s new California campus - which opened earlier this year - he wanted to turn parking lots into green landscapes. But the city of Cupertino demanded 11,000 parking spots, which put

Too much of the space in our downtowns is taken up by parked cars, and requiring developers to provide so many parking slots inflates the cost of housing. It’s becoming clear that those mandates are irrational.

In 2012, Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability set out to answer a simple, urgent question: how much do apartment rents go up…