Research from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) finds that strategies such as providing parking cash-outs, offering commuter benefits, and eliminating subsidized parking could drastically reduce commute VMT in cities. The study also concluded that the implementation of these strategies and the resulting decline in VMT could reduce congestion, emissions, and serious traffic crashes.

The Sonoma Planning Commission voted on a plan that would change downtown by requiring businesses to plan more for bikes and less for cars. It still needs the OK from the Sonoma City Council.

The HOME act allows missing middle housing statewide, reduces parking requirements, targets entitlement delays, and received widespread support.

A state law that bans cities from imposing parking requirements on new commercial and residential development could spur growth in Palo Alto's California Avenue and University Avenue areas.

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To address its acute housing shortage, the city is allowing greater housing density, relaxing parking requirements and creating affordable housing incentives and mandates in updates to decades-old community plans.

Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, talks about the blunders of urban planners and how better cities depend a whole lot on a smarter approach to parking.

As Boise citizens weigh in on a once-in-a-generation rewrite of the city’s zoning code, there are a select few issues that make the shortlist of concerns: density, movability, and parking. This is why the New York Times bestseller, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, is such a must-read.

Travelers parking for longer than three hours are strongly encouraged to prebook at least 24 hours.

SAN FRANCISCO — Drivers in San Francisco may soon face extended hours at parking meters in the city. While a store owner fears driving customers away,

Missing Middle Housing types are key to affordability, but parking (and zoning that requires off-street parking) impacts the cost. This analysis by Dan Parolek of Opticos Design, author of Missing Middle Housing, shows that fourplexes—one missing middle type—may yield from 21 to 49 units per acre, depending on their number of bedrooms and the off-street parking provided. In other words, parking can cut the net density in half. The buildings with no parking may achieve higher densities and lower costs. (In an urban neighborhood, on-street parking is typically available).

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Resident parking permits in Bristol are set to increase significantly in Bristol in the coming weeks.

The very word “parking” can induce stress for those searching for a spot, and pain in one’s pocketbook.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority’s new bike lane enforcement unit has issued more than 300 tickets in its first month. It’s a step in the right direction, but some public safety advocates want the city to step up even more.

As part of an overhaul, the new head of the agency is shifting its focus away from ticketing and toward tackling problems like speeding and abandoned cars.

Author Henry Grabar says the focus on providing parking has undercut walkable communities, affordable housing, and the fight against climate change.

Mono-culture shopping centres are opening up to expanded residential housing use

America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars.

Louisville's biggest corporate citizen no longer needs as many reserved parking spaces in city-owned garages as it embraces remote work.

Abolishing Required Amount of Spaces Could Open Property to Development, Analysts Say

Louisville's biggest corporate citizen no longer needs as many reserved parking spaces in city-owned garages as it embraces remote work.

Abolishing Required Amount of Spaces Could Open Property to Development, Analysts Say

Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.

Lyon says the policy will allow for fairer parking charges. But critics say the move is discriminatory

The ordinance followed complaints about commercial vehicles crowding roads and blocking a brewery.

In an effort to prepare for over one million travelers to pass through Orlando International Airport (MCO) over the next week, officials announced the opening of a new parking lot that will bring over 3,000 additional spaces during Memorial Day weekend.