Meet Alaena Young, PRN’s Executive Administrative Assistant

I will be serving as administrative support for Tony and the PRN staff, in order to help keep everything running smoothly and, more importantly, to allow you all more time to focus on your primary passions, functions and allow you each to make an even larger impact than before I arrived.  

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Parking Reformer Spotlight: Spokane, WA City Councilor Zack Zappone

In Spokane, we didn’t eliminate parking mandates all at once but incrementally over different policy proposals over a couple of years. We went about this in a bipartisan way by building a coalition around common goals such as reducing the price of housing. Our efforts included a diverse range of housing interest groups including housing builders and low-income housing groups who are often pitted against each other but were able to find common ground on this policy change.

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The Diffusion of Parking Reform in the US: How and Why Now?

My conversation with PRN President Tony Jordan last December was pivotal in addressing my master’s thesis research question: How do the factors observed in individual municipalities support and/or explain observed patterns of widespread reform adoption?

My study, which combines quantitative data and interviews with city officials and advocates, reveals the diverse motivations and challenges behind these reforms.

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