Parking

Is parking policy in Toronto finally going to be meaningfully reformed? On January 5th, the City of Toronto released a “Report for Action” signalling it will review its parking policies. This is an opportunity for Torontonians to reflect on the future of automobile infrastructure in urban spaces and to recognize the far-reaching implications that parking […]

The City of Berkeley will be considering this question on Tuesday afternoon, when the City Council is scheduled to once again take up the topic of minimum parking regulations

The first-ever mobility plan ties the city's infrastructure to economic development, the environment, and housing. It also says we need to prioritize pedestrians.

The city of Berkeley may soon forgo requiring parking spaces in new residential construction, pivoting residents away from driving in favor of more sustainable forms of transit.

Businesses and developments are no longer required to build a minimum number of parking spots in South Bend. The city council voted to get rid of previous regulations, saying fewer restrictions could save money for small businesses and make it easier to attract new developments to the area. Developers still can and will build parking in South Bend, but a city planner says the new regulations won’t force businesses or apartments complexes to build more than what they need.

NEW planning rules have been adopted meaning town centre developments in Christchurch no longer need to provide car parking.

Excessive parking rules put cars before people—hiking home prices and pollution.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell today signed a long-awaited package of climate legislation that will help reduce carbon emissions and save money for residents and the City. The three bills address parking requirements, the role of the resilience office and “benchmarking”...

The latest reduction comes after the local planning and building committee also relaxed requirements for each new home to have its own parking space.

Here's a shot of an edge city from the new SimCity. Notice what's missing? (Source: BLDGBLOG) From Geoff Manaugh's interview of the new SimCity's designer, Stone Librande: Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships? Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the […]

Donald Shoup, FACIP, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, discusses parking minimums, paid parking and Pearl Harbor.

And Austin pursues an anti-displacement transit plan and more in this week's The Mobile City.

Small changes can be transformative and cities can grow without expanding

A 2019 law legalizing

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This trend is expected to grow significantly with the advent of autonomous driving, which might render on-demand mobility predominant. Recent studies have started looking at expected parking reductions with on-demand mobility, but a systematic framework is still lacking. In this paper, we apply a data-driven methodology based on shareability networks to address what we call the “minimum parking” problem: what is...

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 …