Help us spread the word about #BlackFridayParking. Get a holiday gift you'll actually want.
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Catch up on what you missed from #BlackFridayParking week this year, including our favorite social media shares.
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See which cities are getting rid of parking minimums, from sea to shining sea.
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If you have an objection on the tip of your tongue when it comes to removing parking minimums or providing less free parking, let’s see if we can answer it.
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While your fellow Americans are busy fighting each other for 50% off toys and discounted televisions at the stores in your town, you have a job: Snap some photos of the parking lots surrounding these stores.
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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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“There’s no parking around there!” How to hit the streets and collect the data yourself, and figure out whether your neighborhood actually has a parking shortage—or, more likely, an excess.
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Requiring excessive parking comes at a heavy cost to the vitality and financial resilience of our cities.. Have you ever wanted a one-stop list of the many ways this is the case? We did too. So we made one.
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There is no justification for a city to maintain minimum parking requirements, to force others to build parking, or to build parking for others to use at no charge.
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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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Now more than ever, it's time to rethink our parking policies and start putting this wasted land to better use.
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Towns across the country are transforming unused parking into more productive developments that offer true benefits to a community, not just temporary car storage.
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The right amount of parking is well-utilized and valuable. But too much is detrimental.
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Municipalities for whom property taxes are lifeblood should treat parking for what it is: dead weight.
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While your fellow Americans are busy fighting each other for 50% off toys and discounted televisions at the stores in your town, you have a job: Snap some photos of the parking lots surrounding these stores.
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If we took the entire Strong Towns Strength Test and boiled it down to one indicator, it would be parking minimums. If you can't figure out how to get rid of them, your town isn't strong.
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Let's rethink parking as communal infrastructure rather than private property.
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That's a lot of accumulated bad planning, and a lot of surface parking, but now it's all water under the bridge. Those costs are sunk, that ship has sailed.
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This year's #BlackFridayParking event was a success! Here are some stats and favorite posts from the event.
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One year ago, we released a crowdsourced map tracking decreases in parking minimums across the country as part of #BlackFridayParking. Today we're sharing an update.
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