Parking

Under typical office parking requirements of a conservative 3 spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area, it would require 56 acres or 15 New York City blocks to serve the Empire State Building if the parking were provided in surface lots. Completed in 1931, in the pre-parking urbanism era, the iconic skyscraper is within walking distance of Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, Port Authority Bus Terminal, and two subway stations.

Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover this country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. Cities are cracking down.

One of America’s fastest-growing cities has eliminated parking minimums citywide, sending a clear message that a flood of new residents doesn’t have to be followed by a flood new asphal…

Henry Grabar's breezy Paved Paradise is must reading for planners -- especially in California.

Discover how UWB technology is simplifying parking, congestion, and theft in smart cities and urban dwellers.

Mayor Wheeler would imperil PBOT's budget if he puts parking meter increase on ice.

After a slew of parking tickets handed out in error, 11 News is taking a closer look at the city of Colorado Springs’ parking system.

The Boot Girls have become among Atlanta's most sought-after entrepreneurs. Armed with $50 keys, they're undercutting the controversial and often shady vehicle-booting industry.

Surfers, runners, volleyball players convince council to reverse decision to start downtown parking enforcement at 8 a.m. ,rather than 10 a.m., as elsewhere in the city.

Westport: As downtown committee firms up plan to revamp Parker Harding Plaza with fewer parking spaces, merchants push back.

“Little by little, project by project, Lubbock downtown is coming back to life and it’s really exciting for all of us.”

They crowd streets, belch carbon, bifurcate communities, and destroy the urban fabric. Will we ever overcome our addiction?

Starting this summer, parking stickers in Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie will vary in price based on the type of vehicle and its net weight.

In a sign of yet another demand placed on already busy curbs, officials at the recent CoMotion Miami conference weighed in on the placement of urban EV chargers. Spoiler alert: they don’t like the idea of a single-use curbside.

ABC News’ Live speaks spoke with reporter and author Henry Grabar about how issues surrounding parking affect housing costs and how we build cities.

Both houses in the Vermont Legislature have approved legislation to preempt local land use regulations by rescinding single-family zoning and easing parking requirements throughout the state.

Ward 2’s Mirtha Becerra, the only councilor with a planning background, called Sherrill’s amendment “a more thoughtful approach to potentially having changes to our parking requirements.”

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Find your perfect parking space using our growing database of thousands of parking lots and garages, street and metered parking and even private driveways!

Exploring curbside pricing policies in Toronto

On-street parking meters, off-street parking lots, special events, motorcycles, and Pay or Permit blocks

Managing parking through pricing strategies is more efficient, cost-effective, and overall more beneficial than increasing the parking supply. Learn more...

Parking facilities are a critical part of a transportation system: vehicles are typically parked about 23 hours per day and require parking at every destination. These facilities impose various economic, social and environmental costs. This report describes how to estimate the number of parking spaces that exist in an area, their total costs, and optimal pricing. This information is important for many policy and planning decisions. Recent surveys indicate that typical North American communities have three to eight parking spaces per vehicle, including many seldom-used spaces. Considering land, construction and operating expenses, their total annualized costs per space typically range from about $600 for a basic surface lot on inexpensive land to more than $5,000 for high-amenity structured parking. Overall, their costs are estimated to average about $1,000 annually per space or $5,000 per vehicle-year, totaling more than a trillion dollars per year in the U.S. For every dollar a motorist spends on their vehicle somebody typically spends about a dollar on parking for its use. Most parking costs are external, resulting in higher taxes, rents and retail prices, plus significant environmental damages. These external costs are economically inefficient and unfair since they increase total parking and traffic costs, and force households that drive less than average to cross-subsidize higher-mileage motorists. More efficient parking management can provide larger savings and benefits than previously recognized.

Parking management refers to various policies and programs that result in more efficient use of parking resources. This guide describes and evaluates more than two-dozen such strategies. It investigates problems with current parking planning practices, discusses the costs of parking facilities and the savings that can result from improved management, describes specific parking management strategies and how they can be implemented, discusses parking management planning and evaluation, and describes how to develop the optimal parking management program in a particular situation. Cost-effective parking management programs can usually reduce parking requirements by 20-40% compared with conventional planning requirements, providing many economic, social and environmental benefits.