It's time to put an end to parking minimum laws and allow our cities to become productive places again.
This is how you start (and win) a conversation about repealing minimum parking requirements.
What's wrong with parking minimums?
Strong Towns allow new businesses to flourish and treat their land as a valuable resource. Minimum parking requirements hinder the potential of Strong Towns by creating barriers for new local business start ups, and filling our cities with unproductive, empty parking spaces that don’t add value to our places.
Join us each November for our annual #BlackFridayParking event, which takes a bold stand against parking minimums with an interactive, nationwide campaign.
Want to see an end to parking minimums across America? Join the movement that's working to accomplish that.
Progress on parking MInimum Removals Across the Country
Click on the pins below read about what's going on in each city with regards to parking minimums:
Visit this page to add your town to the map.
Top Stories
Plus 5 tips for repealing parking minimums in your community.
Municipalities for whom property taxes are lifeblood should treat parking for what it is: dead weight.
What happens when you fill your city with parking? Lots and lots of low value land, and not much else.
Send this video to anyone who needs a crash course in why parking minimums are a major problem for American cities.
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.
Whether you're a city staffer, nonprofit leader or just a strong citizen who cares, there's something you can do to advocate for an end to parking minimums in your town.
My city leaders keep insisting we need more parking. How can I, as a citizen, make the case for less?
We’ve built too much of the wrong stuff in the wrong places and market demand may never catch up or reinvent these landscapes.
The White House takes aim at some of the our cities' worst development practices.
Resources to Help End Parking Minimums in Your Town:
Here is a quick how-to guide for dealing with people who claim your city lacks adequate parking.
Whether you're a city staffer, nonprofit leader or just a strong citizen who cares, there's something you can do to advocate for an end to parking minimums in your town.
Here is a quick how-to guide for dealing with people who claim your city lacks adequate parking.
We hope many of you are spurred to action during this week of #BlackFridayParking. One of the ways to get your voice heard is through your local paper. Here are some tips to help get started.
Here are some excerpts from municipal codes that demonstrate different ways to remove or decrease parking minimums. We hope these are helpful examples.
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.