Parking

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.

Eight councils across the capital have ditched all their machines and replaced them with cashless alternatives

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

Leaving your car within the white lines is the easy bit; the challenge is in settling up with the parking company afterward

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!

The City of La Mesa acknowledged they are aware of the issue and got rid of the QR codes.

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

Nearly a quarter of the land in downtown Hartford is devoted to parking lots, a fact that...

Lambeth council in London is latest to introduce emissions-based fees, with similar charges expected to be widely introduced

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.

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.

The HOME act allows missing middle housing statewide, reduces parking requirements, targets entitlement delays, and received widespread support.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Travelers parking for longer than three hours are strongly encouraged to prebook at least 24 hours.

SAN FRANCISCO — Drivers in San Francisco may soon face extended hours at parking meters in the city. While a store owner fears driving customers away,

Missing Middle Housing types are key to affordability, but parking (and zoning that requires off-street parking) impacts the cost. This analysis by Dan Parolek of Opticos Design, author of Missing Middle Housing, shows that fourplexes—one missing middle type—may yield from 21 to 49 units per acre, depending on their number of bedrooms and the off-street parking provided. In other words, parking can cut the net density in half. The buildings with no parking may achieve higher densities and lower costs. (In an urban neighborhood, on-street parking is typically available).

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Resident parking permits in Bristol are set to increase significantly in Bristol in the coming weeks.

The very word “parking” can induce stress for those searching for a spot, and pain in one’s pocketbook.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority’s new bike lane enforcement unit has issued more than 300 tickets in its first month. It’s a step in the right direction, but some public safety advocates want the city to step up even more.

As part of an overhaul, the new head of the agency is shifting its focus away from ticketing and toward tackling problems like speeding and abandoned cars.

Author Henry Grabar says the focus on providing parking has undercut walkable communities, affordable housing, and the fight against climate change.

Mono-culture shopping centres are opening up to expanded residential housing use

America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars.