Parking

Cities across the US are ditching arbitrary requirements around how many parking spaces must be built with new housing, but Spokane is the first major Washington city to take the plunge. Will others follow?

Open-air car parking a ‘poor use of prime real estate in the inner city’, councillor says

Many people waiting to get into Emerald Heights are currently living in single family homes around town and some say giving senior residents a way to downsize will create more housing options for other families.

Organizers with the nonprofit Depave have been working for years to transform a sketchy Central Eastside intersection into a car-free plaza with some much-needed green space. After many rounds of community outreach and several pop-up activation events, Depave is close to turning its vision of a permanent plaza at the intersection of Southeast Seventh Avenue and Sandy Boulevard into reality. Depave's vision for the future site. depave Nonprofit leaders are hoping to build excitement through...

Columbus City Council voted Monday to overhaul the city's zoning code, paving the way for new higher-density development in parts of the city.

Strong Towns addresses the impact of mandatory parking minimums on urban schools, suggesting solutions to encourage development and revitalization. This news highlights the need for changes in parking regulations to create safer, more livable communities.

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Two largely underutilized parking lots, owned by the city, in the area of State Street, will be converted to roughly 450 apartments. A quarter of the apartments will be affordable.

The law bans single-family zoning statewide and requires communities to allow for greater density in certain areas.

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Saskatoon property developers will no longer be forced to build a set number of parking stalls for most projects.

American cities of all sizes and political stripes are eliminating mandatory parking requirements, with concerns about housing supply the most common driving factor and policy catalysts critical to ensure success, reports the Parking Reform Network (PRN).

Last year, we reported on the accelerating pace of state-level housing supply reform, with major victories in four states and laws being enacted across the country. This year, state legislatures kept up the pace, with 263 individual bills under consideration that would contribute to easing the regulatory burdens on homebuilding, touching on areas from accessory dwelling unit (ADU) permitting to building code reforms. With most state legislatures having adjourned for the year, we can take stock of this year’s successes and failures:

The goal is to make sure Philadelphians don’t have to dodge parked cars on sidewalks and curb cuts.

A city-owned parking lot at the corner of Osborne Street and Stradbrook Avenue could soon have a new owner, potentially paving the way for development on a prominent corner in Osborne Village.

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport will start charging more to park in the terminal garages and economy lots. Here's when the new fees take effect.

"The idea of 'line up!' is deeply ingrained in most of us, to the point where we are angry if someone 'cuts' in line ahead or, for ...

It's the city's first large-scale implementation of the approach after years of testing different porous pavement products.

The United Center’s vision is the latest in a string of developer proposals to remake whole swaths of land near downtown.

With most of the community board recommendations in, Streetsblog mapped where residents are saying "yes" to more housing and less parking.

Road space at the curb is a valuable public asset – and must be recognized as such. It doesn’t belong to cars

What does parking have to do with climate change? Everything, according to Parking Reform Network founder and president Tony Jordan. We hear how the Portland-based, national nonprofit group helps cities around the country remove parking requirements to support the larger goal of creating a sustainable infrastructure.

Roseburg City Council held a work session July 29 to continue brainstorming ideas around downtown parking and how to address the $205,455 deficit the program has accrued since the program

Council Member Kristy Marmorato wants more parking around new Bronx Metro-North stations, claiming her district is a "transit desert."

SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As electric vehicles (EVs) gain popularity in South Korea, a new controversy is brewing over their …

ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — Starting Wednesday, dozens of AC Transit buses in Alameda and Contra Costa counties will have windshield-mounted cameras that use artificial intelligence to id…

Spanish trash containers will be at the vanguard of the city's efforts to clean up streets.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- "Premium Parking" owns dozens of pay-to-park lots in the hub of downtown Pensacola. But that's not all.They own lots in more than 100 other c