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The city’s framework for Broadway is predicated on the wishful thinking that people living near mass transit are less likely to own cars.

Pennsylvania HB1446 lets local governments offer tax exemptions for redeveloping underused malls and greyfields into housing, green space, or energy-efficient sites.

This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]

But not just curbs. Cities also need updated org charts; transformation managers; CFOs and COOs, and, importantly, public pissoirs

An affordable rental project for residents living with mental illness failed to cross the finish line in Port Coquitlam council chambers recently, with

Reevaluating Toronto's surface parking lots to build more housing

By Ben Wolfenstein Ben Wolfenstein is Abundant Housing Illinois‘ State Legislative Lead. Read the Suburban Mayors Coalition for Fair Transit statement here. Read the Capitol Fax post about it here. Recently, the Illinois Municipal League published a statement from 25 suburban mayors and village presidents, calling themselves the Suburban Mayors Coalition for Fair Transit. It […]

The Chicago City Council adopted O2025-0015577 — introduced by 1st Ward Alderperson La Spata — today that eliminates parking mandates for a...

The Chicago City Council will allow residential developments near public transit to build without imposing parking space minimums, offering a major boost for affordability and the city’s housing supply.

The city of Hamtramck has discontinued its parking meters after persistent public complaints. However, the city now faces a challenge to replace approximately $200,000 in lost annual revenue from the meters.

A parking spot in Park Slope just sold for $250,000.

Montreal is planning dense, walkable neighbourhoods to tackle the housing and climate crises, but the plans face delays, rising costs and resistance. Major projects like Bridge-Bonaventure aim to transform the city, but red tape and financing stand in the way.

"Densification without parking is ludicrous."

Kelly Alvarez Doran and Mithcell May examine how parking and Type G loading regulations lead to lacklustre retail in new buildings.

Learn how Sacramento’s 20-foot no-parking rule near intersections improves intersection safety through daylighting for pedestrians and cyclists.

In the midst of a geothermal feasibility project, DMNS researchers made a more surprising discovery: a dinosaur bone from 67.5 million years ago.

Arkansas has stepped into national leadership by passing one of the strongest accessory dwelling unit (ADU) laws in the country.

The new round was led by Headline Growth.

Parking minimums help explain why Houston feels overbuilt for cars but still short on space. How do you pay for parking in downtown Houston?

BRIDGEPORT — In a close 5-4 vote, members of the Zoning Commission rejected an effort to restore residential parking space requirements in Bridgeport. The board at its meeting Monday, June 30, turned down a proposal to reinstitute on-site parking standards for future housing developments that were totally eliminated a handful of years ago. Critics of that prior regulation change maintain there is simply not enough public parking in some...

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BRIDGEPORT — In a close 5-4 vote, members of the Zoning Commission rejected an effort to restore residential parking space requirements in Bridgeport. The board at its meeting Monday, June 30, turned down a proposal to reinstitute on-site parking standards for future housing developments that were totally eliminated a handful of years ago. Critics of that prior regulation change maintain there is simply not enough public parking in some...

The changes are intended to lower the cost of building housing in Boulder and shift away from a car-centric urban design.

Lawmakers will adjust the bill, with debate likely to focus on controversial issues like mandates to build housing and parking requirements.

Surrey council’s designs for mini-parks aim to demonstrate the benefits of less car-focused public spaces

Dozens of drivers competed on Saturday to see who could parallel park the best, in an impromptu competition announced only a couple days prior.

In the first comprehensive review of Colorado land use laws, the National Zoning Atlas found that you can build single-family homes almost anywhere. But apartments, condos and townhomes are widely prohibited.

Every so often when reading an obituary of someone, or an awards citation, you realise that you have internalised their work into your thinking without having read it directly. So it was with Donald Shoup, the California transport academic who spent his life working on the problem of urban parking, and who died in February.

A chorus of critics insist that building on undeveloped land is the only way out of the US housing crisis. But the environmental costs of unrestrained growth are overwhelming.