Parking

If you ask an economist, they’ll point out free street parking has never really been free.

It’s been tried all over the country, with some big hiccups. But parking management could succeed here. The key word is “could.”

San Francisco is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements — a win for pedestrians and affordable housing advocates.

Researchers used Seattle as a case study to find the association between TNC trips and on-street parking occupancy. They found that up to a certain point, more Uber trips meant more parking occupancy. But model predictions show that once TNC trips reach about three times what they were in 2016, parking revenues will likely decline. The final report offers policy options to help cities plan accordingly.

Houston City Council has approved a proposal to allow restaurants to take over 50% of their parking spaces to expand outdoor dining capacity.

Outdoor spaces hastily fancified for low-risk dining are keeping thousands of U.S. restaurants from closing permanently. But crashing the dinner party are tropical storms, rats -- and the occasional out-of-control vehicle.

A long-discussed set guidelines touted as a

“We’re looking at that [year-round],” Hizzoner said at his Monday presser.

Bozeman city commissioners Monday night approved for a second time a parking district that lays out how the city can create permit parking for downtown neighborhoods.

Removing parking requirements on newly constructed condos and apartments may actually increase the costs to rent or purchase, because units with parking spots will become even scarcer and more expensive.

Chicago became the largest U.S. city to enact major reforms to its system of parking fines and fees. City officials say more changes are coming.

A proposal to legalize transit-oriented development would make it easier to build walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, in part by halving the car parking requirement for residences and eliminating …

Changes to allow parking enforcement officers to mail tickets to drivers who take off before the ticket can be placed on their windshields or handed to them are on track for D.C. Council approval.

Legislation hoped to help reduce housing costs in Seattle by allowing so-called “shared parking,” giving developers fewer reasons to create large parking structures, and opening more bu…

On Monday, the Seattle City Council met to adopt a landmark citywide parking reform ordinance, which had been in the making for nearly two years. The ordinance builds upon reforms the city council …

The legislation aims for more flexibility around parking—including the flexibility to not build any at all in some cases

To add more affordable “missing middle” homes, cities need to change parking requirements and limits on building and lot size, too.

I had lunch in a mall parking garage, and it was actually just fine.

A proposed plan to help ease residential parking woes would create residential parking permit zones in some of Detroit's busiest neighborhoods.

Two city councilmembers recently proposed the ordinance

Plans to expand and upgrade Union Station in D.C. might have gone overboard with parking, according to the public comments on the project's draft Environmental Impact Statement.

Guess which city took in almost a billion dollars from fines in 2015...

Mintwood Real Estate founder Katy Slade suggests tweaks to off-street parking requirements

Timm Matthews and his wife dreamed of someday owning a boutique hotel. And when Matthews' friend offered to invest money to buy property, Matthews...

Madison weighs smart meters over multi-space street parking

The price of the permits that allow residents to park on-street beyond time limits could go from $28 annually to $42 starting Sept. 1.

Portland’s city government is finally taking steps to manage on-street parking, but new permit programs will likely have to be more fair to renters if they’re going to get approval from…

Examining models of progress toward restrictions on the use and storage of automobiles from urban areas around the world.