City hits the brakes on changes to Calgary's residential parking permit scheme | CBC News
The city has decided to delay the implementation of changes to its residential parking permit program.
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism?
We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
From homes and cars to parking, how the sharing economy is evolving
COMMENTARY | As more people work from home, parking spaces have opened up in cities. This presents a unique opportunity for governments to make their communities more sustainable and inclusive.
Al fresco platforms: expanding café dining to…former parking spaces? Permanently? - American Dirt.
It’s been a mere two weeks since I explored the sacrifice of on-street parking spaces for transportation enhancements in a Washington DC neighborhood. And here I go at it again. Why should I delve into the subject so soon? Well, this time around, it’s not quite identical: instead of bike lanes, the enhancement is more
Chicago deploys its first TDM requirements for new construction in rail station TOD areas - Chicago Cityscape - Blog
The Connected Communities ordinance — adopted last year — required that the Chicago Department of Transportation establish Transportation Demand Management rules for new...
Parking Mandates Are Vanishing Across Oregon
Six months into the pioneering state policy, regulatory costs are falling and projects are springing to life.
You May Have to Pay More to Drive That SUV in New York
A state bill proposes that owners pay much more for their heavier (and deadlier) vehicles.
Aspiring Urban Planner Chews Into Use of City Property for Outdoor Dining
Research by graduating MURP Graham Rossmore has already influenced Los Angeles policy decisions…
Zoners approve downtown parking garage rooftop
Olympia OKs updated parking laws despite concerns raised by public, council member
California Strip Malls To be Upzoned Saturday
Major rezoning law to take effect July 1st will open up most strip malls to housing.
Parking patios popping up around Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw has one of the most unique downtowns in all of Canada. A handful of restaurants have been doing their part to add to that appeal, by adding parking (roadside) patios during the summer months. A parking patio is a sidewalk patio that has been extended to include temporary conversion of designated parking stalls located on public streets. The Mad Greek restaurant has been operating a parking patio for the past three years.
Quarter of London boroughs remove all their pay and display parking machines
Eight councils across the capital have ditched all their machines and replaced them with cashless alternatives
The New York Parking Wars: How Cars Took Over The Curb - The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Take a look at a vintage photograph of New York from the 1930s and you’ll see automats, newsies, elevated trains and men in fedoras. What you won’t see — dozens and dozens of automobiles on the curb. In a city with skyrocketing real estate values, why are most city streets still devoted to free car… Read More
Apps are killing the parking meter and driving us crazy
Leaving your car within the white lines is the easy bit; the challenge is in settling up with the parking company afterward
America’s auto-centric infrastructure is hurting our health
Is sprawl bad for your well-being? A proposed documentary evaluates how America’s car-first infrastructure impacts our health. @yitgordon gives us the scoop!
Parking meter QR codes in La Mesa link drivers to pornography
The City of La Mesa acknowledged they are aware of the issue and got rid of the QR codes.
New math: Free parking is expensive
The West’s once wide-open spaces are rapidly disappearing, paved into oblivion. If mountain towns are not to be destroyed by population pressures and fossilized planning, they must become innovative laboratories
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The Covid-19 pandemic was tremendously disruptive to American life and had profound effects on American cities and metropolitan areas. This report seeks to unpack the effects of the pandemic on urban America and place these effects on a much larger canvas that includes the urban revival of the last four decades and the advent of the knowledge-based economy as the key driver of metro area growth and prosperity. The question going forward, and focus of this report, is what the pandemic together with this larger picture mean for the future of the American metropolis.
Over 20 percent of downtown Hartford is parking, data shows
Nearly a quarter of the land in downtown Hartford is devoted to parking lots, a fact that...
Owners of the most polluting cars to pay double for parking across England
Lambeth council in London is latest to introduce emissions-based fees, with similar charges expected to be widely introduced
Parking cash-outs benefit employees, businesses, and cities
Research from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) finds that strategies such as providing parking cash-outs, offering commuter benefits, and eliminating subsidized parking could drastically reduce commute VMT in cities. The study also concluded that the implementation of these strategies and the resulting decline in VMT could reduce congestion, emissions, and serious traffic crashes.
Sonoma Plaza parking plan includes more bikes, fewer cars
The Sonoma Planning Commission voted on a plan that would change downtown by requiring businesses to plan more for bikes and less for cars. It still needs the OK from the Sonoma City Council.
Vermont adopts historic housing reform
The HOME act allows missing middle housing statewide, reduces parking requirements, targets entitlement delays, and received widespread support.
As new law removes parking requirements, Palo Alto prepares for influx of development
A state law that bans cities from imposing parking requirements on new commercial and residential development could spur growth in Palo Alto's California Avenue and University Avenue areas.
Council Poised to Approve $2.2 Million Contract for Parking Structure Security
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Land-use reform efforts could bring 135K new homes to downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood
To address its acute housing shortage, the city is allowing greater housing density, relaxing parking requirements and creating affordable housing incentives and mandates in updates to decades-old community plans.
Is a Parking-Free Future Possible?
Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, talks about the blunders of urban planners and how better cities depend a whole lot on a smarter approach to parking.
How does our obsession with parking square with zoning a city?
As Boise citizens weigh in on a once-in-a-generation rewrite of the city’s zoning code, there are a select few issues that make the shortlist of concerns: density, movability, and parking. This is why the New York Times bestseller, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, is such a must-read.
Parking study finds supply outweighs demand in greenfield