What does a world without parking minimums look like?
Building our cities around cars took decades. Undoing it will also take decades, but I don't think it will be necessarily as hard to undo as it was to do.
Developers Reduce Parking via Car Sharing
Incentivized by city parking policies, private developers provide fewer parking spaces or increase density in new projects.
Salt Lake City looks to redo its parking requirements
Salt Lake City is proposing new parking requirements for many neighborhoods throughout town. That means more parking for some, less parking for others.
San Diego Planning Commission Approves ‘Transit Priority’ Parking Reforms
San Diego is on track to eliminate parking requirements within a half-mile of major public transit stops
Rio de Janeiro Joins Other Latin American City Leaders in Parking Reform
In the beginning of 2019, the City of Rio de Janeiro approved new building codes to restrict off-street parking and promote non-motorized transport by removing parking minimums, making Rio the first Brazilian city to pass parking legislation. This ruling comes after years of advocacy by ITDP Brazil, such as the 2017 study on Rio de […]
How Detroit's Love Of Parking That's Written Into Law Helped Create The District Detroit Mess
The District Detroit has gotten a lot of critical media coverage. It’s pretty clear that the renderings portrayed when the project launched haven’t matched the reality. Instead of city-like streets full of life and teaming with offices, retail and residential — it’s a sea of surface parking lots. Although the Ilitch organization has been getting …
One Line of Your Zoning Code Can Make a World of Difference
Sandpoint, Idaho eliminated its downtown parking minimums 10 years ago. Since then, at least four projects that could not otherwise have happened have brought new vibrancy and economic productivity to downtown.
Time to have that uncomfortable talk. I mean about parking.
A Walmart in east Charlotte offers a gracious plenty of parking. Photo: Google Maps satellite view It’s a question without easy answers...
Trouble
Converting Garages for Cars into Housing for People
Sweeping conclusions about the location and travel desires of millennials may be premature
Parking Requirements: Falling by the Wayside in Many Cities
Minimum parking rules have driven up costs and made it more difficult to build affordable housing, experts say.
ArcGIS Web Application
Mayor proposes allowing some housing projects with no parking spaces
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a set of reforms to the city's parking requirements Friday, allowing the construction of housing projects without parking spaces as long as they're close to a planned or currently-existing transit stop.
Progressive land-use reforms are taking root in American cities
With Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles moving forward with land-use reforms, the thinking behind how American cities work could soon change.
Instead of Parking Maximums, Ban Free Parking (in New Housing)
In 2012, Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability set out to answer a simple, urgent question: how much do apartment rents go up…