Parking

Selvena Brooks-Powers of Queens balks at letting apartment developers decide if their customers want a parking spot or lower rent.

New York and cities across the country reconsider decades-old parking rules.

The city is (finally) exploring ways to reduce or minimize the impact parking requirements have on homes and businesses.

Building 2500 parking spots for a new spa is a problem in more ways than one.

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We’ve assembled a guide to three towns and cities of varying sizes that have recently revised their parking regulations. That way, when you decide to pursue parking reform in your own community, you can use them as examples of how parking reform strengthens cities.

Super-small urban vehicles have found a place in European and Asian cities. But in the US, federal and state rulemakers seem determined to keep minicars at bay.

Sure, there’s a big canvas tarpaulin-like thing covering the kiosk here on the sidewalk, so it may not be entirely clear what’s underneath. But an assessment of the surrounding area should make it obvious: it’s a parking meter, and this town uses seasonal meters. And it’s late September. The town in question is Rehoboth Beach,

COMMENTARY | There are hundreds of underutilized—sometimes empty—parking garages and lots across the country. They can be converted to much-needed housing.

There are an estimated two billion public parking spots for about 280 million cars nationwide—an unprecedented waste of public space that contributes to traffic and congestion, dangerous conditions for pedestrians and cyclists, and unsustainable costs for residential and commercial development. And this is not just an urban issue. Rural communities across the country also have … Continued

The recent literature on parking and automobility suggests that most of our current strategies work better for cars than cities.

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Minimum parking requirements are paving over Washington, regardless of how much parking residents or businesses actually need.

More than 40 per cent of drivers appealed their parking tickets last year on the grounds of "hardship" and had their fines cancelled or reduced — a number that's far too high, one city councillor says.

Brighton & Hove City Council will be presenting a report to UK Parliament next week (week of Monday 23 September) to set out a city-wide parking plan.It follows a review of city parking, reque

Haltom City, Haltom United Business Alliance, and Strong Towns work to revitalize city areas, eliminate parking minimums, and attract new businesses. Their efforts aim to create a stronger tax base and enhance citizens' quality of life.

Just north of Tokyo lies the Metropolitan Outer Area Underground Discharge Channel, a robust flood defense system. Known as 'the cathedral,' it helps manage severe rainfall and flooding exacerbated by climate change. Despite its success, rising extreme weather events necessitate upgrades and new projects to enhance Tokyo's infrastructure.

The City of Yes is a web of interconnected policies, if the proposal to remove parking mandates is eliminated, it would change the efficacy of the plan.

This Park(ing) Day, 175 groups across multiple countries transformed curbside parking stalls into bedrooms, terraces, living spaces and more.

City of Yes can only work — and we urgently need it to work — if we do that.

About “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places." — Fred Kent, urbanist Parking reform is on the rise in cities around the world, as many look to repeal parking minimums and better manage and price their on-street

As Long Beach works to meet the state’s housing mandate of 26,000 new homes by 2028, a new state law could make building faster and parking more difficult.

While parking spots quickly fill at the Aurora station, the nearby Bloomington GO station was almost eerily quiet when our reporter visited

City council voted in March to look into converting 130 of its lots, comprising more than 10,000 parking spots, without knowing specific locations

Forty-nine students registered to park on College Avenue were suddenly reassigned to new parking spaces at the beginning of the semester. The parking spaces along College Avenue, utilized by Lafayette College for permit parking in recent years, will be converted into a bike lane as a part of a larger Easton transportation initiative. “We quickly...

 

Land use reform is gaining momentum and laws are evolving rapidly across North America. Here are some changes that are likely coming in the future and what impacts they might have.

The Providence Streets Coalition argues eliminating the requirement of having parking with buildings could help the housing crisis.

Views split on whether city should drop parking requirements for new developments