My Edmonds News recently published a story from the Washington State Standard explaining Spokane’s recent decision to remove parking minimum requirements, and that the Washington State Legislature is considering this...

City Councilmembers say more time is needed to have a quality dialogue about what the proposal is and how it will affect residents before voting.

That's below average for major metro areas, and city planners are trying to push it lower.

City staff to revisit paid on-street parking in 2028

By changing a single word in its parking code, Norman, OK, was able to slow the spread of parking lots and remove a major barrier to entry for small developers.

Hartford, CT, was the first city in the U.S. to repeal parking minimums. So…why is its downtown still 22% parking lots?

The city of Cleveland recently passed legislation that will update parking mandates and include mobility alternatives for projects that are near high-frequency transit routes. These regulatory changes are important.

Six La Jolla locations are affected by regulations requiring public parking occupied by outdoor dining to be replaced with an equivalent number of spaces elsewhere.

City hopes to address ‘need for efficient land use and livable communities’ through reform

Building 11 flats and two shops in a Wakefield village is hazardous, residents say.

August 08, 2023 -- Haltom City should follow the examples of other cities and states that have abolished parking minimums, says HUBA founder

In recent years, a rapidly growing number of cities across North America have begun repealing harmful, wasteful parking minimums. Here are a few highlights from the first half of 2023.

The $46 million 'Digs' apartments proposed in Omaha's midtown area fuels debate about parking in the urban core.

If you ever head to Greensburg to eat downtown or shop, you may have found it difficult to find parking.

Bibb and city planners taking steps toward achieving "15-minute city" framework.

Phoenix City Council is weighing a proposal to reduce parking space minimums for developers and make the city less car dependent.

Six months into the pioneering state policy, regulatory costs are falling and projects are springing to life.

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.

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

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

What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, knows.

Under typical office parking requirements of a conservative 3 spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area, it would require 56 acres or 15 New York City blocks to serve the Empire State Building if the parking were provided in surface lots. Completed in 1931, in the pre-parking urbanism era, the iconic skyscraper is within walking distance of Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, Port Authority Bus Terminal, and two subway stations.

Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover this country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. Cities are cracking down.

One of America’s fastest-growing cities has eliminated parking minimums citywide, sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn’t have to be followed by a flood new asphal…

Both houses in the Vermont Legislature have approved legislation to preempt local land use regulations by rescinding single-family zoning and easing parking requirements throughout the state.

Ward 2’s Mirtha Becerra, the only councilor with a planning background, called Sherrill’s amendment “a more thoughtful approach to potentially having changes to our parking requirements.”

The City of Victoria is currently engaged in a parking policy review which proposes reducing some off-street parking requirements (http://victoria.ca/zoningparking). These changes are good, but modest. This short report identifies much bolder reforms that would better align parking policies with other community goals. Although written for Victoria, the analysis and recommendations are appropriate for most municipalities.

A growing consensus argues that minimum parking requirements (MPRs) make housing more expensive. This paper examines two claims from this discussion: (1) that MPRs discourage the construction of small units; (2) that the costs of building required parking are "passed on" to buyers and renters in the form of higher prices and rents. However, the mechanisms behind these two effects have never been made explicit in the literature. This paper proposes, for each claim, a plausible mechanism relying on the specific choices of housing suppliers and consumers. We propose that MPRs discourage small units because they eliminate the most profitable floorspace/parking bundle to supply to relatively lower-income households. We propose that parking costs may be passed on by reducing the supply of housing on offer at a given price.