Durham County has made it easier to build dense development. Here are the new rules.
Durham County joined the city this week and adopted zoning reforms that encourage denser infill development and eliminate minimum parking requirements.
The Durham County commissioners’ vote Monday night was split 3-1:
For: Chair Nida Allam, Heidi Carter, Wendy Jacobs
Against: Vice Chair Nimasheena Burns
Absent: Brenda Howerton
The vote came three weeks after the Durham City Council passed the same changes inside the city limits in its own late-night, split vote.
“I think people want small-scale, locally built housing and small-scale commercial development to be viable,” Carter said before casting her vote.
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City planners want to eliminate parking requirements for most commercial and industrial areas in Lincoln, responding to changing retail habits and allowing the market to dictate parking needs.
Mayor Adams vows to remove parking spots from 1,000 NYC intersections every year
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Yes, really. I gave my keynote speech at the Arizona State University (ASU) conference yesterday morning, and it was only my second favorite talk I attended. Which one beat it out? A panel on mandated parking. All 3 of the speakers made cogent, passionate, fact-filled arguments against parking mandates. The moderator who asked questions was […]
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Oak Island paid parking program exceeds expectations
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Austin eliminates parking requirements for new developments to make city more affordable, sustainable
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....
One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces. - EnviroLink Network
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
