Parking

A debate about parking spaces and bike lanes has become a flash point in the small but densely populated community where people often report feeling unheard by officials representing them.

FREEHOLD, NJ - One of the benefits of having a night out in Downtown Freehold was that, unlike other busy area entertainment centers, parking was free.

After four years of discussion at lower levels of Dallas City Government, five members of the City Council asked for the briefing that was presented Wednesday.

City Councilmembers say more time is needed to have a quality dialogue about what the proposal is and how it will affect residents before voting.

The fight over congestion pricing gets at something so very much bigger.

In the Upper West Side, a program called Smart Curbs promises to kick off a citywide Department of Transportation initiative to reform the city’s parking and street usage.

A new tool from the Parking Reform Network illustrates just how much space in our cities is being wasted on car storage.

Council gives initial approvals to downtown parking plans, but some question whether it goes far enough.

Finding space for cars has remade the built world. A new history uncovers just how much our lives revolve around parking.

Birmingham received an overall parking score of 55 on the study’s scale of 1-100, which indicates how much land is dedicated solely to parking in a city center.

That's below average for major metro areas, and city planners are trying to push it lower.

Replacing the three free parking areas with housing would be devastating to downtown businesses and a local church, opponents say.

City staff to revisit paid on-street parking in 2028

Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longer

By changing a single word in its parking code, Norman, OK, was able to slow the spread of parking lots and remove a major barrier to entry for small developers.

Hartford, CT, was the first city in the U.S. to repeal parking minimums. So…why is its downtown still 22% parking lots?

The city of Cleveland recently passed legislation that will update parking mandates and include mobility alternatives for projects that are near high-frequency transit routes. These regulatory changes are important.

" Let’s bid farewell to obsolete parking minimums and welcome an era of transit-oriented development and walkable communities," the author writes.

The town council hired a parking manager and will tackle paid parking next.

City Council plan to nix parking requirement near the Beltline sent back for review

Drivers will have to share access to public chargers. That could get ugly.

Six La Jolla locations are affected by regulations requiring public parking occupied by outdoor dining to be replaced with an equivalent number of spaces elsewhere.

Newly released data shows that 24% of Providence’s downtown is dedicated to parking. “We are analyzing all cities over 300,000 and for cities over a metro area of more than 1 million,” said Thomas Carpenito.

Southern Ontario group plazaPOPS has come up with the novel idea of creating new and vibrant common areas in underused space such as strip mall parking lots.

We definitely don’t need more giant, empty parking lots that no one can park in for fear of being towed or fined ridiculous amounts of money.

The installations, which aim to eliminate sidewalk trash mountains and rat populations, are part of a pilot program announced this May and are modeled after European-style shared street bins.

City hopes to address ‘need for efficient land use and livable communities’ through reform

Building 11 flats and two shops in a Wakefield village is hazardous, residents say.

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The City of Santa Ana has recently been added to an interactive parking lot map which has revealed that 22% of downtown Santa Ana is dedicated solely to car parking. You can explore the full map an…