Parking

As the City of Falls Church moves toward accommodating car-alternative transportation, City officials are following the consensus among urban planners that investing in a public parking garage is passé. But does a government-level disinterest in building a public utility represent a budding trend of disinterest in residents’ own garages? The […]

Increasing parking fees and fines could encourage people to use mass transit, research suggests.

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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a set of reforms to the city's parking requirements Friday, allowing the construction of housing projects without parking spaces as long as they're close to a planned or currently-existing transit stop.

With Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles moving forward with land-use reforms, the thinking behind how American cities work could soon change.

Curb space in city centers is a scarce resource. And as demand for this space increases — with the rise of urban deliveries, shared…

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It was a huge success: Parking spots are now bike lanes, transit is fast and easy, and the streets (and local businesses) are full of people.

In 2012, Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability set out to answer a simple, urgent question: how much do apartment rents go up…

The parking benefits that churches, synagogues, hospitals, colleges and other nonprofits offer their employees are suddenly taxable.