Parking

It was a moment of rare unanimity on the Anchorage Assembly: By a 12-0 vote, the Assembly repealed minimum parking mandates, meaning that new construction in much of Anchorage will not have to provide a specific number of parking places. The ordinance was sponsored by conservative Kevin Cross, and liberals Daniel Volland and Forrest Dunbar. […]

Anchorage is the latest city to enact sweeping parking reforms, in another blow to the car-centric status quo of planning.

Nashville is the latest city to enact a substantive change to the parking requirements set by the city’s zoning code—doing away with parking minimums and setting parking maximums in the city’s Urban Zoning Overlay.

TfL has published data from its Travel in London report, which outlines mobility trends in the UK capital over the last three-years.

The Department of Transportation’s Every Day Counts program once emphasized auto-oriented infrastructure. Now it's doing more to take climate and safety into account.

A new case study suggests half of Melbourne’s street parking could be converted to garages, which would free space for new green areas.

Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.

Only purchases from authorized in-state retailers would be eligible for rebates, and rebate recipients would need to own their e-bikes “for at least one year after receiving the rebate,” according to the bill.

Up to 78% of walkers would take a more challenging route featuring obstacles such as balancing beams, steppingstones and high steps, research has found. The findings suggest that providing 'Active Landscape' routes in urban areas could help tackle an "inactivity pandemic" and improve health outcomes.

Fifty years ago last week, Governor Francis Sargent killed the Southwest Expressway, an 8-mile extension of Interstate 95 from Canton to the South End, a decision that transformed and shaped modern Boston.

The new neighborhood growth blueprint would increase the area's population from 78,000 to 143,000 and break up car-centric superblocks.

New York just got more room to celebrate the holidays this year — well, only on Sundays.

The legislation would make it faster and easier to turn San Francisco’s gas stations,...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parklets have been deployed onto kerbside carparking spaces throughout Melbourne, Australia, by street-fronting hospitality businesses, to provide socially-dista...

In an effort to clear cluttered sidewalks, new city regulations will raise parking fees for drivers while allowing bicycles and scooters to claim street spaces for free.

But you still have a chance to raise one last glass in the award-winning space before Dec. 23.

Some luxury high rises in the Big Apple have high-tech automated robotic parking spaces beneath them that cost as much as a single-family home.

The multilane arterials known as “stroads” remain dangerous fixtures of US cities. In an excerpt from his book Walkable City, planner Jeff Speck outlines how to tame them.

An annual list of the must-read books related to urban planning and its intersecting fields.

When automobiles flooded urban America, builders, planners and designers faced a daunting challenge: where to put them.

We give our cars a lot of room. There's a growing effort to reclaim it.

The San Francisco Planning Commission gets its first crack at the environmental impact...

'Smart' road user charging could replace the alphabet soup of ULEZ, LEZ, the Congestion Charge and even road tax

Car emissions are killing the planet. Can congestion pricing and better public transit end our love affair with automobiles?

Two key politicians have already signaled support for a still-faraway "Grand...

City built around cars embraces shift to walkable, transit-oriented development.

In June of 2020, Edmonton became the first major Canadian city to remove minimum parking requirements. The change meant that instead of developers and businesses having to provide a specific number of parking spaces, they could decide how much to offer. (Accessible spots for people with disabilities continue to be required). Ashley Salvador, who is now a city councillor but was working as an urban planner at the time, advocated for the change and now considers it a success. "A fear that we heard

Your thoughts on changes to parking minimums ranged from "hell no" to "absolutely" to "mixed feelings."