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We’re launching a series to both celebrate positive examples of ‘people-first’ streets – and to point out the most dangerous and unpleasant roads in our backyards.

The city famous for its bike lanes is struggling to cut car pollution. Now Portland faces a major battle over whether to keep expanding highways.

As concerts, conventions, and sporting events rebound from the pandemic, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is looking to shift the way people travel to some of the city’s largest event venues. The Lloyd district is home to three of Portland’s major venues: the Moda Center, the Oregon Memorial Coliseum, and the Oregon Convention Center. When all three venues have events on the same night, well over 10,000 people flock to the Lloyd neighborhood, causing...

On days two and three of the YIMBYtown conference at Portland State University, parking and land-use experts from across the country shared insights on how our national overabundance of car Read More »

Housing reformers from all over the country are currently in Portland, Oregon, for YIMBYtown, a national conference about housing abundance and affordability. Last week I was lucky to catch up with one of the panelists, Leah Bojo. Bojo worked as the policy director for Chris Riley, a city councilor in Austin. In that time the […]

In our second event in our series "Zoning in Charlottesville," UVA Planning Professor Dr. Andrew Mondschein presented on "The High Cost of Mandatory Parking...

The state land use board provisionally approved the rules but left room for tweaks by July.

This year, California has a unique opportunity to grapple with the consequences of one of the most misguided planning ideas: parking minimums. For

The debate over parking with new development is everlasting in Missoula, where land is both limited and expensive. Using it to park cars is costly, and it may fall out of vogue as ride share and public transportation grow to provide new mobility options.

A local group of builders and community activists say they have a creative and cost-efficient plan to get thousands of homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles and into safe spaces immediatel…

A.B. 2097 and A.B. 1778 illustrate that a powerful approach to addressing the overlapping problems of affordable housing and sustainable transportation can be to solve both at once.

City Council Member Lincoln Restler offers his plan to solve the problem.

Mandatory parking rules make housing more expensive. California’s legislature should undo them.

Zoning reform policies that boost economic development, promote housing, and bust the myth that reducing parking spaces hurts businesses.

Toronto’s motor champions still operate under the delusion cars are crucial to urban mobility, instead of mainly getting in the way of better options.

Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases

Bill from Senator Portantino would offer a tax credit to people who do not own cars

Free parking at work should be tax-exempt only if commuters who don't drive to work are offered a benefit of equivalent value.

So why do transportation leaders spend so much time drafting “pedestrian master plans” and “bike master plans” without accompanying “car master plans” aimed at b…

Curtailing parking minimums represents a sweeping shift in American attitudes.

The recommendation asks city officials to consider a program that would send citizens a portion of funds from citations issued for infractions.

Op-ed: The Science Museum of Virginia is transforming two acres of asphalt surface parking along Richmond’s Broad Street into a new public green space.

Pennsylvania law on street parking is decades old. It limits protected bike lanes.

More fliers are driving to the airport, making slots for their cars scarce and more expensive

If signed by the Mayor, the bill would require employers to provide transit benefits through a pre-tax payroll deduction or company-purchased fare passes

When Evan Kindler agreed to write a report on Parking Benefit Districts for an internship project, he didn’t know that he’d catch the parking reform bug.

Where many urban planners are seeing the social benefits that lay dormant within these spaces others focus on the environmental impact of the common parking lot.

Held every two years, the World Urban Forum is the premier global conference on urbanization convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). It brings together a wide range of participants from around the world to discuss major urban challenges facing the world today.

Yes, In My Backyard groups have formed in communities across the country to fight zoning and development practices that make housing less affordable.