Parking

This New York City nonprofit decided to show how much valuable space is wasted by parking…by converting two parking spaces into a studio apartment!

Getting rid of these requirements, Coun. Linda Annis reasons, will speed up development approvals for new housing and make homes more affordable

Oak Island Town Council received a detailed breakdown of the 2023 paid parking program that netted more than $1.1 million in its inaugural year at the board’s Nov. 14 monthly

Durham joined Raleigh in dropping parking minimums in an effort to encourage more construction

Some cities, including Austin, Texas, are moving away from parking minimums.

The fees and fines stem from over one million citations issued by the city.

The Austin City Council voted to eliminate parking space requirements on all new building developments on Nov. 2, making it the largest city in the United States to do so. The approved amendments to the city’s land code no longer require developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces along with their building projects....

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In the beginning, parking lots were created to curb chaos on the road. But climate change has turned that dynamic on its head. Since the 1920s a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped a large facet of American life. In major cities, this meant that any type of building — apartments, banks, or shopping malls — needed to reserve a certain amount of parking spaces to accommodate anyone who might visit.  But transportation makes up almost one-third of carbon emissions in the U.S. and cars represent a significant portion of those emissions. As the country attempts to aggressively cut carbon emissions, reducing dependence on fossil fuels will also mean rethinking what transportation and public space look like, especially in cities. Earlier this month, the city of Austin, Texas, became the latest community to eliminate parking minimums and is now the largest city in the U.S. to do so.  “If we want half of all trips to be in something other than a car, then we can’t, as a city, in my opinion, mandate that every home or business have at least one parking space for each resident or customer,” said Zohaib Qadri, the Austin city council member who introduced the measure. Reducing dependency on cars was a huge push for the initiative in Austin, said Qadri, who hopes the measure also will lead to a more sustainable city. “Climate change is here,” said Qadri. “And we’re only going to make it worse by clinging to these very climate unfriendly and unsustainable transportation habits of the 20th century.” The elimination of this seemingly innocuous law could pave the way for cities to build denser housing, increase public transit options, and reduce their carbon emissions, according to Donald Shoup, an

It was a big day for drivers at Vancouver city council Wednesday, as councillors approved a suite of changes to parking in the city.

The 12,000 parking spaces and around 160 acres of parking lots at American Family Field are typically flooded with celebrating fans before Milwaukee Brewers games. But now – as part of discussions

Right now, if you park illegally at certain spots you can be fined $25. On Monday, the city council could raise it to $100.

Wanting to encourage people toward using bikes for transportation is all fine and good, but not when it makes it harder for developers to build much-needed housing.

Paris is set to hold a public consultation on 4 February about whether to increase parking charges for heavy SUVs.

This article dives beneath the surface-level noise created by disgruntled students made late to class from a parking pilgrimage. While the above description of parking at Conn is certainly melodramatic, for students with vehicles on campus, aspects of this experience ring true. Many students have experienced the chaos of the West gravel lot or the frustration of walking to South Lot on a snowy February day. While some students may feel as though the parking situation at Conn is in crisis, perhaps the issue is more internal than external.

OCEAN CITY – A new division under the transportation department will oversee all paid parking activities in town. In a work session Tuesday, the Ocean

Many urbanists argue that requiring parking spaces around businesses and homes drives up prices and make cities less walkable.

Parking benefit districts, which ensure money from meters goes directly toward local projects, have been implemented elsewhere in Massachusetts.

“You can’t have a city of a certain size where everybody feels entitled to drive their air-conditioned vehicle to their air conditioned destination.”

As an eagle-eyed reader recently pointed out, a national analysis by a nonprofit organization pushing for more vibrant U.S. cities has found the percentage of downtown Atlanta’s land devoted to parking remains abnormally high.

The city of Pontiac has reintroduced paid parking in the downtown Pontiac business corridor.

Six streets where LADOT added motorist parking at the expense of bicyclist safety. And the city wonders why traffic deaths keep increasing?

The city of Denver stopped issuing parking tickets in some neighborhoods because of an issue with the new application process for residential parking permits.

The City Council is considering implementation of a pilot program that would reinvest metered parking fees back into a neighborhood for transportation-related improvements. The program would be tested in Roslindale Village.

It's too early to cut parking spots with attractions, like Soo Market and the new downtown plaza, not yet revealing their impact, writes Selva Rasaiah

Some communities in San Diego are considering adding parking meters to free up spots. Not everyone likes the idea

The real cost of all this traffic

Affordable housing advocates, developers and climate activists say rules requiring a minimum amount of parking spaces on new projects drives up construction costs and enables a dependency on vehicles…

Here are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.

Minimum parking requirements are usually discussed as it relates to residential development, but industrial developers think it's an issue as well.