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May 17, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

You don’t want to miss our event this Thursday: Tackling Parking Reform in Hawaii – Taking Down Parking Lots and Unpaving Paradise – featuring Kathleen Rooney from the Ulupono Initiative. Register for free here.

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Minneapolis Abolishes Costly Car Parking Mandates

The big news this week is the culmination of years of work in Minneapolis to eliminate damaging minimum parking requirements. On Friday, May 14th, the city council unanimously approved an ordinance implementing the Minneapolis 2040 Plan directive to do so. St. Paul is likely to eliminate its car parking requirements as well.

Philadelphia Looks to Reduce Parking Taxes

Philadelphia, PA may cut its taxes on parking lots and garages by more than 30% this coming July. But Philadelphia parking reformers say the move will undercut climate action and traffic safety goals.

Patrick Siegman breaks it down on Twitter, APA Says Poor Curb Management Costs Billions, and Sec. Pete (briefly) Talks Parking.

PRN Advisory Board member, Patrick Siegman, posted a great twitter thread about the genesis and reasons for California’s AB1401, and the lessons are universally applicable.

While the California APA is causing some to scratch their heads in its opposition to a clean AB1401, the national APA published this article on how poor curb management costs city’s tons of money.

And while it’s a brief mention, it’s notable that the Secretary of Transportation mentioned the potential impact on land use, particularly parking demand, if AV ever become a reality.

Street Eats and Open Streets

  • In New Haven, they’ll be dining in the streets when restaurants reopen
  • Where Covid’s Car-Free Streets Boosted Business
  • Downtown organizers are betting on a car-free Main Street to boost city life in Salt Lake City.
  • San Francisco rolls out lower permit fees, discounts for permanent parklet program
  • Dozens of St. Petersburg businesses apply for parking space street dining program permit

Redeveloping and Repurposing Car Parking

  • Parking Lot near USC sells for 5 million dollars.
  • Demolition of Downtown Parking Structure 3 in Santa Monica is approved
  • The Parking Podcast: E50: An Interview with Reachel Knight and a Conversation about Convertible Garages
  • Here’s How Replacing Parking Lots With Parks Will Transform Downtown Dallas

City News

  • Birmingham parking issues to be addressed
  • City of Fairmont, West Virginia, aims to restructure parking requirements for downtown redevelopments
  • Opinion: A simple solution to downtown Scottsdale’s parking debate
  • $100,000 Will Buy You A Single Parking Spot In Brooklyn
  • DC’s DDOT Launches New Digital Parking Permit System
  • Parking changes coming to downtown Traverse City, MI
  • Court ruling allows Chicago to double amount for parking tickets and fines
  • Majority of council ready to implement parking plan in Crested Butte, CO
  • Mountain View, CA considers more enforcement and paid parking to solve downtown parking woes
  • Kew Gardens garage in Queens, NYC could be sustainable

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May 9, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Hello and welcome to this week’s Parking Reform News! This is the first week in quite a while where I have not had the luxury of an editor. Many thanks to Angel York for her work as a Communications Intern since the beginning of the year. If you know someone with strong editing and/or social media skills who would like to help us further our mission either as an intern or volunteer, send them the internship description. Until then, expect more errors and less maps. My apologies in advance.

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May Event: Tackling Parking Reform in Hawaii

You’ll want to register now for our online event on May 20th: Tackling Parking Reform in Hawaii – Taking Down Parking Lots and Unpaving Paradise. Featuring Kathleen Rooney Ulupono Initiative’s Director of Transportation Policy and Programs. The event will begin at 4PM Pacific, free registration is required, sign up here.

Dallas Parking Reform Heats Up

PRN Member Nathaniel Barrett has another comprehensive and, if you’re into this sort of thing, entertaining thread reporting on the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee meeting regarding parking reforms. And in an exciting development, a new facebook group has formed to support the potential reforms: Dallas – Parking Reform.

Buffalo Parking Garage Seeks Second Life

When a city eliminates its parking requirements, it can open up a world of possibilities. The City of Buffalo, NY is considering proposals to redevelop a large downtown parking ramp. Let’s hope they pick the one with the least amount of car parking.

A Recipe for Achieving Real Housing Affordability

From PN Advisory board member, Todd Litman comes a characteristically comprehensive post about upzoning policies, including parking reforms, that can ensure that low- and moderate-income households can find suitable housing in good neighborhoods where transportation costs are low.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • The opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change
  • Parking sets the stage for a new Common Council’s relationship with police in Madison, WI
  • Belmont, NJ’s expanded parking fees anger some residents who say they now have to pay

Open Streets and Street Seats

  • Parklet spaces offer lifeline for businesses, unique experiences for patrons in Charleston, SC
  • How one Philly ‘streetery’ experiment became a victim of its own success
  • ANALYSIS: NYC DOT’s Permanent Open Streets Will Depend on its Definition of ‘Compromise’

City News

  • Rethinking Parking in Lexington, KY
  • Laredo, TX working on updating downtown parking
  • Dillon, CO moving forward with paid overnight parking system
  • Dublin, Ireland City Council to trial on the spot fines for parking illegally in bus and cycle lanes
  • ‘Sensible price’ or too much? Portsmouth, NH sets final vote on doubling parking fines
  • As Salt Lake City’s population booms, neighborhoods find themselves in a losing battle against ‘densi-fication.’
  • Hartsfield-Jackson to Open New ATL West Parking Deck
  • Berkeley allocates large investment for affordable housing project near BART
  • How Moscow, Russia fights traffic jams
  • After easing off-street parking requirement, Pittsburgh, PA considers move to limit curb cuts
  • Victoria, BC to consider cap on off-street parking for new developments

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Parking Reform News

May 3, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Mapped By Angel York

Welcome to May! We’ll start this week’s news with a series of posts featuring our members.

  • Paul Barter’s latest episode of the Reinventing Parking podcast is about his fantastic Parking Reform Atlas.
  • Will the EV Revolution Kill the Parking Reform Movement? featuring quotes from PRN President Tony Jordan.
  • Bend City Council considering removing parking requirements: featuring quotes from PRN members Melanie Kebler, David Welton, and Michael Andersen.
  • Cities Need Housing, Parking Requirements Make It Harder: co-written by PRN Advisory Board member, Donald Shoup.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Dorchester apartment building aimed at homeless families rejected over parking concerns
  • When Parking Is Punitive which brought this study on inequities in the distribution of parking tickets in Los Angeles to our attention.

Costly Car Parking Mandates

  • Parking Is Devouring American Cities
  • Livetweets of a Denton, TX zoning meeting on parking minimums.
  • To slow ‘doubles to dorms’ trend, New Orleans might keep Uptown parking restrictions
  • St. Paul could eliminate requirement that developers include parking with new projects
  • Why good design and excessive car parking just don’t mix

Redeveloping Surface Lots

  • Why are the liberals of Takoma Park suing to protect a piece of asphalt?
  • Senior, Low-Income Affordable Housing Will Replace City-Owned Prospect Heights Parking Lots
  • A Billion-Dollar Battle Over a Parking Lot at the Seaport

City News

  • New York City to reserve more parking spaces for carsharing
  • D.C. is working on a futuristic plan: Less parking, taller buildings and a transformed city
  • New Meters, Residential Program Among Medford, MA Parking Guidance
  • New York Beach Town Faces Millions in Bills for Mismanaged Past
  • New $3/hour parking rates, fines could come soon to downtown Spokane
  • Herkimer, NY to roll out parking permit plan

Miscellaneous

  • Caesars Entertainment Donates Las Vegas Parking Fees to Charities

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Parking Reform News

April 26, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Mapped by Angel York

The Parking Reform Network held a fantastic event for our members on April 21st. You can watch the recording and hear about the parking reform efforts of 30 PRN members, just a fraction of the great work we know is happening. The featured speakers start their short talks about 25 minutes into the video. Enjoy!

Minimum Car Parking Requirements

  • UCLA Professor Michael Manville posted a scathing, and well cited, thread on twitter expressing his disappointment in the California chapter of the American Planning Association’s reluctance to wholeheartedly support ending costly parking mandates near transit.
  • PRN member Nathaniel Barrett has more coverage of Dallas, TX’s process to reform parking rules.
  • ‘Tremendously overparked’ San Jose, CA looks to shed decades-old parking requirements
  • Minneapolis, MN Planning Commission approves a parking requirement change that may impact future developments around the University
  • Opinion – Gainesville, FL should abolish parking minimums
  • Norman, OK Councilors look to shrink parking lots

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Fullerton, CA will start enforcing parking regulations on street where homeless live in RVs
  • Opinion – The ‘New Redlining’ Is Deciding Who Lives in Your Neighborhood
  • Wilmington, DE towing revenue, parking enforcement systems called into question
  • Madison, WI City Council narrowly votes to move parking enforcement out of police department
  • Parking lots housing Phoenix AZ’s homeless population to close

Miscellaneous

  • The Original Shoupista Reflects on 25 Years
  • Deals Lag As Market Looks for Value of Parking Garages During Pandemic

Curb Management

  • Surrendering Our Cities to Cars Would Be a Historic Blunder
  • It’s car vs car on the central Auckland, NZ street where parking is free
  • Prototype “walk” Neighbourhood in Hong Kong Has Become Free Parking Lot
  • Columbia, MO City Council votes to use downtown parking spaces for outdoor dining

City News

  • Nashville, TN airport increases parking prices
  • Condo car elevator raises (and lowers) the bar for parking in Portland, ME
  • Double Portsmouth, NH’s parking fines? Public invited to share opinions.
  • Council on Kansas State University Parking Operations proposes 10 percent increase in parking permit rate for upcoming year
  • New Orleans, LA city leaders want more ‘transit-oriented’ neighborhoods; Here’s what that means
  • Anticipated ‘car-free’ development in Tempe, AZ moves forward
  • 2 Minnesota projects are models for ‘retrofitting suburbia’
  • Pismo Beach, CA city officials explain reasoning behind parking fees

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Parking Reform News

April 19, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

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Parking Reform Network’s Year-in-Review Event

Coming up is our members-only event on April 21st at 5PM Pacific. Be there! Parking Reform Network members are doing great work and you’ll hear all about it if, but you must RSVP to attend. Our speakers will include Sara Bronin from DesegregateCT, Courtney Cobbs from Streetsblog Chicago & Better Streets Chicago, Lori Droste from Berkeley, CA, and Evan Manvel from the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, Andreea Udrea from Dallas, TX, and Martha Roskowski author of the report Ideas to Accelerate Parking Reform in the United States. If you’ve been putting off becoming a member, now’s the time.

Minimum Car Parking Requirements

  • It’s time for another twitter thread covering Dallas, TX’s Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee‘s work on parking, from PRN member Nathaniel Barrett.
  • Here’s another twitter thread covering a report from St. Paul, MN in support of ending minimum parking mandates.
  • California’s AB 1401, which would prohibit cities from requiring car parking in housing near transit, has passed it’s first committee!
  • Donald Shoup said the comments on this post about his letter in support of AB 1401 “confirm [his] claim that most thinking about parking occurs in the reptilian cortex.”
  • Denver affordable housing advocate, Rev. Laura Rossbert asks: What do parking requirements have to do with affordable housing?
  • Here’s a report cited in the last link detailing the relationship between Parking & Affordable Housing.
  • Op-Ed from Bend, Oregon: As Bend Transitions to a City, Be Ready to Talk More about the “Big P”

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Seattle, WA Mayor Durkan revisits push to move parking enforcement from police to Seattle Dept. of Transportation.
  • How restrictive zoning shut the middle class out of Greenwich, CT

Parking 101

  • PRN member, Paul Barter presented a “Masterclass” for Practical Cities in India: Has Parking Ruined Your City
  • Henry Graber, journalist with Slate, author of an upcoming book on parking, and PRN member was on the Sprocket Podcast this week. [no transcript]

Autonomous Vehicles

  • This promotional page from JD Power breaks down the types of parking assist available in vehicles today.

Curb Management

  • Is this the year European cities start banning cars?
  • Managing the Urban Curb Will Require Good Data, Innovation

City News

  • Edinburgh, Scotland City Council deny union claims of blocking increase to hospital parking
  • Colchester, England parking: Drivers offered cheaper parking for car parks outside the town centre in new scheme
  • Multimodal-friendly Shoal Creek residences in the works in Austin, TX
  • Yang, Adams tangle over parking placards in NYC Mayor’s race.
  • Mayor: Compromise reached with DCR over Revere Beach, MA parking meters
  • Portage La Prairie, Canada is working to fine tune its parking strategy
  • Sioux Falls, ND City Council drills parking department on advisory boards, transparency of parking lot sales
  • Opinions differ on changes to Emerald Isle, NC beach parking
  • Casper, WY Steering Toward $250 Rv Parking Fees, Pilot ‘Parking On The Parkway’ Program
  • Downtown Dover, DE might be getting parking meters. One business owner is trying to stop that from happening

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