PRIORITY CAMPAIGN
End Parking
Mandates & Subsidies
Strong communities are ending the mandates and subsidies that waste productive land on automobile storage.
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What’s Wrong With Parking?
The High Cost of Parking
Our Communities Deserve Better
Parking mandates take away the flexibility and agency that homeowners, developers, and business owners deserve.
A Losing Investment
Parking minimums cost the public in the form of extra infrastructure that must service all that parking—but without the taxable value to recoup public investment.
Unlock Your City’s Potential
Ending parking mandates and subsidies will free up vast swaths of land that can be used more productively.
What's Happening Now in the End Parking Mandates and Subsidies Campaign
Strong Towns Media
Tiffany Owens Reed
The Dangerous Side Effects of Free Parking
Tiffany Owens Reed
Tiffany Owens Reed
The Strong Towns Action Lab is your arsenal of parking mandate information, stories, and more. Get the resources you need.
Places Across North America Are Ending Parking Minimums
See which communities near you have implemented parking reform over on the Parking Mandates Map page, originally launched by Strong Towns, now co-hosted by the Parking Reform Network.
Want to add your community to the map? Submit an update here!
A Common-Sense Reform
We understand the harm parking mandates and subsidies create for families, business owners, and small-scale developers. That’s why we’ve been a leading voice against parking minimums for over a decade.
Over the last few years, Strong Towns has helped dozens of communities reduce or eliminate parking minimums. We even helped create a map of cities across the U.S. and Canada that have made this reform (200 and counting). When we started our annual #BlackFridayParking campaign in 2014, the thesis—that we are overbuilt on parking, even on the busiest shopping day of the year—was outside the mainstream. Now it is becoming accepted wisdom. Ending parking mandates and subsidies is just common sense.
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