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Time To Flip The Script On Parking
Parking is not a community benefit, it is an attractant to the pollution, noise, and violence of cars. When we force developers to make new concessions in exchange for eliminating arbitrary and...
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Parking Reductions for EV Charging: Good deal or bad idea?
In my last post I argued that it’s bad policy to tie eliminating parking requirements to demands for developers to provide more transportation demand management, affordable housing, or “green”...
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San Diego Passed Some Great Parking Reforms This Month!
On March 19th, San Diego’s City Council re-affirmed a decision to eliminate minimum parking requirements within 1/2 mile of planned or existing transit stops, zones they call Transit Priority Areas...
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Upcoming: National Planning Conference 2019
NPC 2019 is in San Francisco. Let’s meet up and talk about parking! In a few days I’m heading to San Francisco for the National Planning Conference. I was on a panel a few years ago for the...
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Six Parking Policies That Could Be Better Than Congestion Pricing
Painted sign reading “$ Pay BEFORE returning to your vehicle” Congestion pricing is becoming the commonly prescribed cure for what ails the city. But what if there was another approach to traffic...
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Don’t waive parking requirements near transit, just waive them everywhere.
When cities reform their parking requirements, they often implement new rules reducing or waiving on-site parking based on a new project’s proximity to transit. But, just like ratios that came before...
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Portland takes one more step toward zero parking requirements
As of March 1st, every new high-density residential project in Portland has a path to ZERO parking requirements and the low-density requirements are on their last legs. Portland’s parking requirement...
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