Parking
Basics
Legislating at the Intersection of Transportation and Housing Policy
A.B. 2097 and A.B. 1778 illustrate that a powerful approach to addressing the overlapping problems of affordable housing and sustainable transportation can be to solve both at once.
May 31, 2022
THE BRAKE: Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Zoning
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?
May 10, 2022
STEAL THIS IDEA: Canadian City Passes Next-Gen Parking Reform
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.
May 9, 2022
OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air
Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.
March 21, 2022
SPUR Talk: Time for a Parking Intervention?
There are about two parking spots for every resident of the Bay Area, or 2.4 for every car.
February 28, 2022
No Minimum Parking Requirements? No Problem for Fayetteville, Ark.
In 2015, the city council of Fayetteville, Arkansas, adopted a radical but simple idea: do away with minimum parking mandates and let businesses decide how much parking they need. How did that work out?
February 25, 2022
End Parking Mandates, Get a Free Bus Pass
Great programs like this one in Minnesota don’t happen when big parking lots are mandatory.
February 3, 2022
D.C. ‘Parking Cash Out’ Law Makes Employers Refund Workers Who Don’t Drive
Many employers in Washington, D.C. are now required to pay workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits.
January 7, 2022
Op-Ed, Part II: Conversion to EVs is a Once-in-a-Century Chance to Fix Many Car Culture Problems
Electrifying cars is the right thing to do, but excessive number of cars, oversized vehicles, and use of the curb for private auto storage remain crucial deficiencies of the city government’s automotive infrastructure in New York.
January 6, 2022
Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots
At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.
December 30, 2021
