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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San José adds itself to the list of cities that are doing away with harmful parking minimums!
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Oregon’s statewide land use board declared its support Thursday for rules that, among other things, reduce or remove parking mandates in 53 jurisdictions in the state’s eight largest metro areas.
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This Strong Towns member saw a huge problem with the parking minimums in his city—and decided to do something about it.
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Many thoughtful urbanists want to #endparkingminimums. We do too. But there’s something else we can address. It’s a relatively small change that can have a big impact…and it could be a good first step to getting rid of parking minimums altogether.
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John Reuter—board member at Strong Towns and former councilperson at the City of Sandpoint, Idaho—shares his insights in how you can propose eliminating parking minimums in your town—including how to tell a compelling story, how to find data that enhances that story, and how to build community support around removing parking minimums.
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I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions.
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I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions. On foot, we are nimble, responsive, and shaped to maximize the utilization of space. A crowd of people is not a traffic jam, it’s a party!
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Communities across the country have found that resistance to parking minimum removals quickly fades when the facts are on the table and the benefits are made clear.
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Let's rethink parking as communal infrastructure rather than private property.
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Today we're featuring an excellent piece diving into parking from one of the newest additions to our member blogroll, a blog from Craig Lewis in Charlotte.
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What happens when you get rid of minimum parking requirements in a downtown district while also adding 4,500 people to the downtown?
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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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Fayetteville, Arkansas recently lifted their minimum parking requirements which were, as in most cities, absurdly high.
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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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