Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Parking Policy

THE BRAKE: Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Zoning

By Streetsblog | May 10, 2022 | No Comments

What if any American could tell at a glance how her unique local land use policies influence the way she and her neighbors get around, without having to dig through a mountain of arcane jargon to get there?

STEAL THIS IDEA: Canadian City Passes Next-Gen Parking Reform

By Kea Wilson | May 9, 2022 | No Comments

As in many North American cities, community leaders had vowed to address the climate crisis through policy action — but that didn't mean everyone recognized how forcing developers to build car storage was setting back that goal, or the city's other priorities.

Analysis: The Decline and Fall of Mandatory Parking Minimums

By Patrick Siegman | Jan 31, 2022 | No Comments

Was 2021 the year that U.S. planners finally lost faith in minimum parking requirements? It certainly seems so.

D.C. Law Makes Employers Refund Workers Who Don't Drive

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2022 | No Comments

Many employers in Washington, D.C. are now required to pay workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits.

Aerial image of a half-empty Walmart parking lot. (Photo from Google Earth.)

Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots

By Catie Gould, Sightline Institute | Dec 30, 2021 | No Comments

At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.

‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure

By Kea Wilson | Nov 19, 2021 | No Comments

"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."

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