Parking

Local zoning rules often give neighbors the power to block new housing. Maybe they need new incentives to say yes.

They provide convenience, but it comes at the cost of effective land use and construction of affordable housing.

Councilmembers reflected on both internal and public issues in need of improvement for 2024.

The last coin-only parking meters in Toronto will soon be scrapped due to maintenance costs and the introduction of better parking pay technology

Since LoDo Towers deployed the robots in its two garages on 17th Street, it has seen a more than 70% drop in car thefts and vandalism.

The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.

The developers of Culdesac Tempe, a $200 million mixed-use community without cars or parking, are looking to export their design model to other cities.

A California desert city blew up its main street. Now what?

Friday morning brought a big change to the parking situation in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District. At least, that was the plan until vandals intervened. Flyers were placed on cars a few day…

Decades ago, when many other European cities were building more road capacity, Vitoria-Gasteiz took a very different path

James Brainard is stepping down after leading Carmel, Ind., for 28 years. He’s best known nationally for building roundabouts and promoting local climate efforts, but his legacy rests with how he rebuilt the Indianapolis suburb.

Eliminating parking minimums could lower pollution. Will more cities buy in?

A string of mistakes in one city shows how easily local rules can turn arbitrary and destructive.

City is considering several options — including eliminating free parking — to boost revenues

Op-ed: If just the best-suited 10% of America’s strip malls were redeveloped, we could build 700,000 new affordable homes nationwide. Here’s what it would take.

Some members of the USM community said they've racked up hundreds or thousands of dollars in fines while parking at the Gorham and Portland campuses this fall.

Research shows L.A.'s Al Fresco outdoor dining program is an unsung hero of the COVID-19 pandemic, throwing a lifeline to restaurants and bars

Public support is building for changes to housing zoning codes and other laws that dominated American housing policy for decades.

Durham County joined the city this week and adopted zoning reforms that encourage denser infill development and eliminate minimum parking requirements. The Durham County commissioners’ vote Monday night was split 3-1: For: Chair Nida Allam, Heidi Carter, Wendy Jacobs Against: Vice Chair Nimasheena Burns Absent: Brenda Howerton The vote came three weeks after the Durham City Council passed the same changes inside the city limits in its own late-night, split vote. “I think people want small-scale, locally built housing and small-scale commercial development to be viable,” Carter said before casting her vote.

City planners want to eliminate parking requirements for most commercial and industrial areas in Lincoln, responding to changing retail habits and allowing the market to dictate parking needs.

The 15-minute city concept offers a way out of the housing and climate crises. But we may need to look to an unlikely place: the first suburbs.

The street safety measure, called “daylighting,” is meant to reduce pedestrian deaths. Officials said traffic fatalities will also be recorded for the first time in CompStat, the NYPD’s weekly published crime data.

Adhering to parking mandates forces us to live in a world shaped by men like Robert Moses, one that prioritizes cars above all else. But the time is now to reshape that world — New York needs to ca…

Let's be real about this

Cities often fail to effectively manage parking—and the public pays for it.

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