John Anderson explains why parking minimums exist and what's wrong with them.
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These maps illustrate the way parking lots deplete your town's tax base and alter your landscape to detrimental effect.
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Decatur, GA removes parking minimums for commercial buildings, and increases bike access in the process.
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Chuck Marohn interviews Donald Shoup, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His book, The High Cost of Free Parking, and his extensive research into the effects of parking on cities have made him a prominent voice on these topics.
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In our dense cities where land is valuable and housing is expensive, why is parking cheaper than rent?
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Phoenixville, PA removes parking minimums in its downtown through a new comprehensive plan, facing a surprising lack of resistance from the community, and seeing fantastic results.
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See which cities are getting rid of parking minimums, from Miami to Portland.
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If you have a comment, an idea or a story about parking in your community, please call the Strong Towns Talk-Back line and share it.
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I first became a member of Small Towns thanks to a gift membership. Initially I found the posts, blogs and chats interesting but over the past year they have become invaluable to the volunteer work I do with my community.
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Imagine living in a city where every restaurant is required by law to provide free chicken sandwiches. This would be absurd, right? Well, nearly every town in America does it. But they don’t require free sandwiches, they require something much more valuable: free parking.
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Huge props to Mark Sowers who sent me his research and analysis of #blackfridayparking. He nailed it.
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