Parking

The real parking problem is that there's too much of it and people expect it to be cheap and widely available. This has fundamentally changed cities.

The City of Wilmington has roughly three times more parking spaces than it does greenspace, but changes could be coming to the city’s Land Development Code to prevent the trend from continuing.

The issue was one that was taken up by the Wickenburg Town Council at its meeting on Tuesday night with a presentation by Director of Community Development and Neighborhood Services Steve Boyle.

The St. Paul City Council is poised to redraw residential zoning rules that have barely been touched since 1975. The goal is more housing density and fewer parking requirements near major public tr…

By design, Houston is car-dependent. Yet, Kinder Surveys have shown that half of Houstonians want to live where they can walk more and drive less. Recently approved ordinances that promote

The reform sets a new standard: up to four homes on almost any lot, or up to six homes for price-regulated projects.

San Francisco is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements — a win for pedestrians and affordable housing advocates.

On December 11, 2018, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance (the “Ordinance”) eliminating required parking minimums citywide for all uses. The vote was 7-4, with Supervisors Cohen, Safai, Stefani, and Yee voting against it. Mayor Breed signed the Ordinance on December 21 and it went into effect on January 21. Those in favor of […]

Removing parking requirements on newly constructed condos and apartments may actually increase the costs to rent or purchase, because units with parking spots will become even scarcer and more expensive.

On Monday, the Seattle City Council met to adopt a landmark citywide parking reform ordinance, which had been in the making for nearly two years. The ordinance builds upon reforms the city council …

The legislation aims for more flexibility around parking—including the flexibility to not build any at all in some cases

To add more affordable “missing middle” homes, cities need to change parking requirements and limits on building and lot size, too.

Timm Matthews and his wife dreamed of someday owning a boutique hotel. And when Matthews' friend offered to invest money to buy property, Matthews...

There is an evolving understanding that urban lifestyles are changing, traditional parking ratios are outdated, and too much supply can be as harmful as too little.

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...

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…

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.

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

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.)

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.

Ever wonder why there seems to be a steady creep toward less parking?

COVID-19 is requiring us to cut non-essential travel in the short term. It’ll be harder to do it in the long term — but it will be worth it.