Salt Lake City is inching closer to a new ordinance that would prohibit the demolition of any housing unit for any new type of commercial parking.

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. Earlier this spring, when Port Townsend, Washington, eliminated parking mandates—predetermined numbers of parking spaces required by law for new buildings—the news took the internet by surprise. Not many people expected the first Washington city to make off-street ... Read more

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A San Francisco parking lot full of Waymo robotaxis has a nightly cacophony of honking as the cars try to park themselves after midnight.

I love suburbs now, it's over.

Houston Street parking meter spaces will be transformed this week to celebrate International Park(ing) Day and create temporary green spaces for San Antonians and visitors to enjoy.

The City Council is poised to approve the first major neighborhood rezoning of the Adams administration.  The body is expected to vote Thursday on the rezoning of 46 blocks around four new Metro-North stations planned for Co-op City, Hunts Point, Morris Park and Parkchester/Van Nest. The rezoning is sending a mixed message. On one hand, […]

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Zoning reform could be coming to the city of Binghamton. Mayor Jared Kraham says it will decrease development costs, supporting new construction. Planned reforms eliminate or reduce some requirements

In some fast-growing Sun Belt cites, “the overnight lows kind of sneak up on you.”

“Superblocks,” a street design idea that is gaining popularity in Europe, could bring green relief to American cities.

The city of Minneapolis is changing critical parking areas as land uses change and as it tries to reduce driving by 2030.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Businesses attempting to get permits in Spokane will no longer have to build parking to accompany their buildings. The move makes Spokane the first major city in

The owners of the Clinton Street Garage in Syracuse's Armory Square are proposing the property be turned into a mixed-use apartment complex.

The city doesn’t require multifamily developers to include fitness rooms, swimming pools or resident lounges in their buildings. But it does require them to include parking. Am I comparing apples to oranges? I think not. These amenities enhance quality of life for the people who use them but also make housing more expensive. For some […]

In our car-obsessed society, providing parking is a major expense for business and property owners. The Delmanor Aurora retirement home near Toronto has found an innovative way to reduce the number of parking spaces it provides to residents, while still allowing them to drive as much as they need to. In collaboration with EV rideshare... Read more »

Boulder's parking challenge is having too much of it, new data from the city reveals. Changes are on the way.

Urban planners say Australia has too much parking. But as car ownership grows, questions have surfaced as to whether we could ever build less.

Most U.S. apartment complexes bundle the costs of parking and housing together — whether or not residents actually own a car and use that space. New research suggests that tenants might be open to a change.

August 20, 2024 -- Investors are unable to get approval to develop older properties when off-street parking doesn't meet current codes.

Houston Street parking meter spaces will be transformed this week to celebrate International Park(ing) Day and create temporary green spaces for San Antonians and visitors to enjoy.

Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order that directs every city agency to investigate whether they have land that can be developed.

The Sunrise Movement Dallas has launched a campaign to eliminate parking minimums in the city.

More than a third of NI's councils say they have not changed car parking prices in nearly a decade.

The Marshalltown city council spent approximately the second half of Monday night’s meeting returning to a familiar topic — parking rules — by passing the first reading of an ordinance amendment to Chapter 156 of the city code on zoning before moving into a different section of the code pertaining to parking, Chapter 72. After […]

Danish municipalities are receiving record amounts in the form of parking fees. Politicians have denied parking is being used to boost municipal finances.

Parking reform went into effect in Fairfax County, Virginia, in January, but county officials are considering tweaks to make sure the new regulations don’t lead to a decrease in accessible spaces.

Borough President Donovan Richards draws a hard line on parking mandates, recommending the city keep them in low-density areas.

Let's start with parking requirements for new developments.