In recent years, a rapidly growing number of cities across North America have begun repealing harmful, wasteful parking minimums. Here are a few highlights from the first half of 2023.
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Cities and towns big and small across the nation are ending parking minimums.
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On July 17, 2023, Spokane City Council adopted an interim ordinance that makes off-street parking optional for all housing that’s within half a mile of a transit stop.
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Change has been slower than expected in car-oriented Tysons, Virginia, in the past decade, despite Fairfax Country’s multi-modal goals. But new lower parking minimums for developments around transit could help.
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In Kansas City, KS, parking regulations threaten to demolish local coffee shop Kinship Cafe for a parking lot. The cafe’s owner, T.J. Roberts, joins us today on Upzoned to talk about his struggle to save his business.
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Public policy has winners and losers, and parking reform is, unfortunately, no exception. So how should that knowledge impact the way we approach parking reform?
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As Dallas examines its land use plan, it's time to talk about parking lots.
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Parking reform is gaining substantial momentum even in recent months—a policy development that will impact missing middle housing production, reuse of old buildings, and vehicle miles traveled, experts say.
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For nearly half a year, this small business owner has been ready to open his coffee shop…but the city is refusing to let him do so, all because of antiquated parking mandates.
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So, your community has decided it needs more parking. That doesn’t mean you’ll have to destroy buildings and dump a sizeable amount of money into (and take on the long-term liabilities of) a block-sized parking lot.
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A new bill, currently in committee in Washington’s House and Senate, is intended to spark development in places where parking minimums have hindered housing starts.
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Tens of thousands of homes are now more buildable, including several projects now resurrected that local parking mandates had previously killed.
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The group Vermonters for People-Oriented Places just launched this year, but they’re already off to a fast start in Burlington, VT, where they’re supporting important changes for the community.
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Nashville, TN, made the news recently for not only abolishing parking minimums within its urban core, but also establishing parking maximums in the same area.
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In the past, city officals may have found it difficult to eliminate parking minimums, citing a lack of precedent. But now, other cities are providing the guidance that decisionmakers need to enact parking reform.
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In recent years, a rapidly growing number of cities across North America have begun repealing mandatory parking minimums. Here are a few highlights from 2022.
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Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2022: Americans say land wasted on unused parking could be used for something greater.
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Most parking lots on Black Friday are not going to be full. Here’s one retail complex that’s an exception—but it just proves that having “enough” parking is always less important than creating a place people want to be.
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Burlington, VT; Nashville, TN; and Cambridge, MA, are eliminating parking minimums. What can we learn from their efforts?
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A recent study on curbside dining in Toronto found that there are loads of financial possibilities waiting in empty parking spaces.
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