Parking

Removing parking requirements on newly constructed condos and apartments may actually increase the costs to rent or purchase, because units with parking spots will become even scarcer and more expensive.

Chicago became the largest U.S. city to enact major reforms to its system of parking fines and fees. City officials say more changes are coming.

A proposal to legalize transit-oriented development would make it easier to build walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, in part by halving the car parking requirement for residences and eliminating …

Changes to allow parking enforcement officers to mail tickets to drivers who take off before the ticket can be placed on their windshields or handed to them are on track for D.C. Council approval.

Legislation hoped to help reduce housing costs in Seattle by allowing so-called “shared parking,” giving developers fewer reasons to create large parking structures, and opening more bu…

On Monday, the Seattle City Council met to adopt a landmark citywide parking reform ordinance, which had been in the making for nearly two years. The ordinance builds upon reforms the city council …

The legislation aims for more flexibility around parking—including the flexibility to not build any at all in some cases

To add more affordable “missing middle” homes, cities need to change parking requirements and limits on building and lot size, too.

I had lunch in a mall parking garage, and it was actually just fine.

A proposed plan to help ease residential parking woes would create residential parking permit zones in some of Detroit's busiest neighborhoods.

Two city councilmembers recently proposed the ordinance

Plans to expand and upgrade Union Station in D.C. might have gone overboard with parking, according to the public comments on the project's draft Environmental Impact Statement.

Guess which city took in almost a billion dollars from fines in 2015...

Timm Matthews and his wife dreamed of someday owning a boutique hotel. And when Matthews' friend offered to invest money to buy property, Matthews...

Madison weighs smart meters over multi-space street parking

The price of the permits that allow residents to park on-street beyond time limits could go from $28 annually to $42 starting Sept. 1.

Portland’s city government is finally taking steps to manage on-street parking, but new permit programs will likely have to be more fair to renters if they’re going to get approval from…

Examining models of progress toward restrictions on the use and storage of automobiles from urban areas around the world.

If there’s one thing America definitely doesn’t need any more of, it’s parking lots — and during COVID-19, communities across the U.S. are seizing that under-utilized asphalt for …

There is an evolving understanding that urban lifestyles are changing, traditional parking ratios are outdated, and too much supply can be as harmful as too little.

A new parking garage in downtown Coeur d’Alene opens Tuesday, providing about 350 paid parking spaces.

A Berkeley City Council member proposed shifting traffic and parking enforcement from the Police Department to unarmed civil servants in a first-of-its-kind measure put forth Monday, the same day the mayor proposed slashing the city’s police budget by $9.2 million.

In March, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto introduced a bill that would change the Pittsburgh city zoning code to end the current requirement that new single-family...

“Guess what, Gersh, a lot of people still have cars,” the mayor said sarcastically.

By Neil Heller with Cary Westerbeck Neil is an urban planner at Neighborhood Workshop in Portland, Oregon and faculty of the Incremental Development Alliance. Currently sporting an 80-day…