Parking

Northboro Builders, which is under contract to buy the Foosaner Art Museum, wants to build a 180-room hotel with a rooftop restaurant, pool and bar.

From Main Street parallel parking to a garage at the SCAT transfer station site, merchants and property owners are discussing long-term strategies for reshaping the city’s commercial center.

Episode 17 of Amazing Places! This week, Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute joins the podcast to talk about the hidden costs of free parking. There's no such thing as free parking. Whether it's the added construction costs of underground parking or the spot outside your house, parking costs add up. Check out Todd's work at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute https://www.vtpi.org/ Cities for Everyone is a community organization that supports more affordable housing and transportation in order to provide security, mobility and opportunity for people...

The City Planning Commission is pondering developer Monadnock’s request to build a Gowanus headquarters without the usual parking requirement.

The city of Ottawa quietly started offering 30 minutes free parking at two municipal parking lots in the ByWard Market and at Ottawa City Hall last month to help support businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Toronto's couriers and drivers say delivering essential goods has become increasingly difficult due to the city's outdated parking regulations.

Cities are coming around to the idea that on-street parking should be managed and priced based on the demand for the space. San Francisco, for example, created SFpark, a program that adjusts the prices of 7,000 parking meters to achieve a target occupancy rate for on-street spaces, and received much praise among transportation policymakers and professionals. Yet as on-street parking management programs garner attention, cities routinely build off-street parking garages at great cost with scant public scrutiny. Other than recovering the cost of building and maintaining the garages, cities co...