Urban Planning Our Way Out of the Car Culture Hellscape – SURFACE
In “Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles,” Woods Bagot and James Sanders show the ripple effect of the electric vehicle revolution.
In 2023, City Planners Approved Enough Parking to Bring 8,000 More Cars Into Boston - Streetsblog Massachusetts
In spite of an acute housing crisis and unfulfilled goals to slash motor vehicle pollution throughout the city, Boston’s planning agency approved more parking spaces than homes over the course of 2023. According to year-end statistics compiled by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), Boston approved 69 development proposals that would create 7,346 new […]
In some parts of the world, cars have always been on the larger side. But now these behemoths are spreading – and the consequences are still being figured out.
L.A.'s worst parking lots? An expert explains how to fix them
Every driver has a parking lot they dread. A civil engineer analyzed the problems at some of L.A.'s most notorious parking lots and suggested ways to fix them.
A Slow and Steady (but Bittersweet) Victory Against Arcane Parking Mandates
No thanks to parking mandates, it took two years of fighting to get this local coffee shop open in Dallas…but even then, it wasn’t a total win for its owner.
Lincoln City Council Mulls Over Groundbreaking Plan to Modernize P…
The City Council of Lincoln, Nebraska, is considering a proposal to modernize city parking requirements and phase out commercial parking lots, a move that could make Lincoln the first city in Nebr…
From parking lot to public park: Richmond buys historic Mayo Island
Pieced together by one generation and paved over by another, an island in the middle of the James River could finally have a new future as a public park.
Parking paralysis: Developers, activists, and city officials say parking requirements are blocking needed development
With concerns over a lack of affordable housing dominating headlines, communities across the country are starting to reconsider the issue of mandatory parking minimums.
From university town to density town: Charlottesville passes huge zoning reform
In December 2023, the Charlottesville City Council unanimously passed sweeping pro-housing reforms that abolished mandatory parking minimums, modernized the permitting process, legalized duplexes citywide, and more.
STAMFORD – A parking study that began three weeks before the onset of COVID-19 has been released, concluding that the pandemic added to events that were already shifting patterns in the city. Changes in population and the workforce that unfolded between 2010 and 2020, the first year of the pandemic, substantially affected parking demand, the […]