Parking

The United Way recommends a statewide set of special land use rules for affordable developments in towns that haven't hit the target, new flexibility from local use restrictions, minimum lot size requirements, maximum floor-area-ratio, and parking minimums.

These overarching trends affect the decisions communities are making around transportation design, street space, Cites neding minimum at the end.

Includes parking reform measures

Half of the rebates would go to low-income residents.

Center for Neighborhood Technology

A new study attempts to come up with a dollar figure for how much cars, trucks and roads cost Massachusetts each year.

This piece is the third in a four-part series. It summarizes findings from a report written by Hannah Hoyt, published by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America.

Highlights from a new journal article on shared mobility and equity.

In recent years, cities across the United States have adopted a range of parking policy reforms to manage the existing parking supply, reduce traffic, cut pollution, and bolster city finances. Reforms include eliminating minimum parking requirements for development projects, enabling developments and businesses to share parking facilities, and using technology solutions to efficiently manage the supply of on-street parking. This interactive report allows users to access information on policies from cities across the U.S. A searchable, filterable database includes a range of recent policy examples that represent significant shifts from the status quo depending on the local context.

An overview of the benefits of good parking management practices and a collection of resources for communities looking to meet many goals by improving parking management. Curated by Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management program.

The City conducted a study to better understand the safety benefits, effectiveness, and usage impacts of parking separated bike lanes.

Harvard Medical School study comparing hospital car parks in 2019 to 2018 finds spike in October

Excellent example of handout for parking reform basics. Focused on Chicago.

COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.

To get more cities to finally reform their outdated parking standards, we need to stop talking about “taking away” spots and focus on what we all stand to gain, like an accelerated path to ending climate change. That’s one of the findings of a new report from the Institute for Transportation Development and Policy, which examines the perennial question of how to build support for common-sense parking reforms.

The U.S. ban on Russian oil has sustainable transportation advocates urging leaders to take action before surging gas prices overwhelm American families — by giving them access to the active and sh…

The new recommendations also call for bike-share stations and more parking.

What if it functioned more like a bridge than a wall?

COMMENTARY | Cities and counties have numerous options to turn vacant stores and parking into spaces that can benefit everyone.

‘There’s a disconnect between our environmental values and how much land we devote to storing cars’

After nearly two years of dining and shopping in parking spaces outside of local businesses, Alexandria wants to start charging rent. City Council will review a staff proposal on Tuesday (March 8) to start charging annual rent to business owners for their use of parklets -- converted parking spac