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Parking Reform News

March 15, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Edited by Angel York

Resources

  • ITDP published an excellent report: Ideas to Accelerate Parking Reform in the United States. The report was compiled by Parking Reform Network member, Martha Roskowski, and draws on interviews with more than 40 parking reformers and experts. This is a must read.

    Roskowski joined with PRN’s Tony Jordan, Transportation for America director Beth Osborne, and Darryl Young from the Summit Foundation to discuss this report in the latest episode of the Federal Mobility Policy Update.
  • Todd Litman published a new report on Win-Win Transportation Emission Reduction Strategies, many of which are parking related.
  • Paul Barter has released a new Parking Reform Atlas which highlights case studies of various reforms around the world, check it out!

News from PRN members

  • Andreea Udrea was featured in this D Magazine profile: She Came To Fix The Parking
  • Dallas, TX is still working on reforms and Nathaniel Barrett live-tweets the action.
  • Paul Barter has published part two of his interview with Patrick Siegman on the Reinventing Parking Podcast. This episode deals with on-street parking management in San Francisco and Ventura, CA.
  • Here’s a podcast we missed from a few months back Amazing Places: The High Cost of Free Parking featuring Todd Litman.
  • Dan Allison from Sacramento, CA presents the latest in his More Housing, Less Parking series.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • A renter with limited mobility in Revere, MA applied for an accessible parking space in front of her new home, and was denied her rights.
  • Lost and found: Finding a car parking spot in Burlington, VT just got easier

Parking Garages

  • Wes Guckert thinks Retrofitting Parking Garages Could Help With Affordable Housing Shortage
  • A Detroit, MI parking structure orphaned after its arena was demolished may see new life as a “mobility hub.”
  • While some places may be repurposing garages, the city of Melbourne, FL is pursuing a project to build a new 500+ stall garage as part of a development package for a hotel.
  • Business leaders in Sarasota, FL are also dreaming big about a new public parking structure.
  • Seattle, WA area’s Sound Transit agency is finalizing plans for transit stations which also include new parking structures.

Curb Management & Uses

  • Parking: An Underutilized Tool in the Recovery Toolbox
  • COVID is reshaping the streets of San Francisco
  • Excelsior, MN will start paid parking trial on Second and Third Streets
  • Parking to be key challenge in North Bay, CA: parklet outdoor dining becoming permanent post-pandemic
  • Why are parking stall markers being removed in Lake Geneva, WI?

City News

  • The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection granted $582,000 to halt polluting runoff from just two surface parking lots in Wilkinsburg, PA.
  • Boston, MA Planners Approved Over 11,000 New Parking Spaces in 2020
  • Most downtown Amherst, MA businesses reject idea to remove car parking as part of North Common renovation
  • Parking fees coming to two parks in Metro Vancouver, BC this spring
  • Parking permit prices are climbing for London, England owners of high-polluting cars.
  • Emerald Isle, NC board signs off on private management of beach access parking lots, new fee system

The News, Mapped

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Parking Reform News

March 8, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

The answer to last week’s news post treasure hunt (find the tiara) is at https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/25/set-children-free-are-playgrounds-a-form-of-incarceration – Edited by Angel York

Upcoming Events

  • How we won parking cashout for Washington, D.C., and how you can too! On March 30th at 4PM Pacific Time the Parking Reform Network will host Cheryl Cort from the Coalition for Smarter Growth, register for free here.
  • Donald Shoup will be at SWSX Online on March 16th to discuss Adaptable Cities: Tech & the Urban Evolution.

The Parking Industry

  • Larry Cohen is a 40 year veteran of the parking industry. He visited the Parking Podcast to talk about his new book: The Quirky World of Parking. The book is not yet available through our bookshop, but there’s a 20% discount code over at the parking network.
  • Two workers at the University of Birmingham – Alabama were fired after over $300,000 was found missing from the parking revenues.

Opinion and Commentary

  • Left And Right Should Agree: Abolish Parking Requirements For Housing
  • Better Parking Management Can Help Cities Recover from COVID and Achieve Public Policy Goals

City News

  • Can you every build enough parking to appease critics? This condo project in Long Beach, CA is nearly 2/3 below market rate and has nearly 2 car parking spaces per home, but the neighbors are still upset.
  • Laguna Beach, CA will use $1M of parking revenues to clean up the streets.
  • Portsmouth, NH wants to make sure the cost of a parking ticket isn’t less than the cost of feeding the meter.
  • Spokane, WA city parking fund faces nearly $10 million in costs as it prepares to roll out new downtown rates, system
  • Changes Coming To Bend, OR’s Downtown Parking Garage
  • How does Lafayette, LA’s downtown parking compare to others? Lack of technology might be biggest difference
  • Minneapolis, MN is set to implement the removal of all costly parking mandates, citywide, as promised in the Minneapolis 2040 Plan.
  • Toronto needs new delivery rules, say drivers contending with surge in demand and limited parking access
  • State College, PA’s parking garages need repairs. Here’s why a consultant says it’ll cost $7.3M
  • Ottawa, ON offering 30 minutes free parking at three parking garages in March

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Denver, CO RTD Approves ‘Equitable’ TOD Policy
  • Seattle, WA City Code Requires We Pave Over Playgrounds, But We Could Change That

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Parking Reform News

March 1, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Tony collects the piles of news articles, and I’m bringing you this blurb at the top. My highlight of this week’s parking reform news: THE TIARA. What is the tiara and why do I love it so much? Can you find the article that mentions the tiara? My runner-up: could Boston transit go fare-free? -Angel York

Research and Reports

  • Parking Standards as a Steering Instrument in Urban Mobility and Planning by EU project PARK4SUMP.
  • Reversing Car Dependency by the International Transport Forum.
  • The opportunity cost of parking requirements: Would Silicon Valley be richer if its parking requirements were lower? by C.J. Gabbe, Michael Manville, and Taner Osman.
  • Free parking for free people: German road laws and rights as constraints on local car parking management by Dr. Elizabeth Taylor.
  • Want fewer cars on the roads? Don’t offer parking, research suggests.

Housing

  • Toronto neighborhood residents upset about plans to turn parking lot into affordable housing
  • Getting Around Sacramento Blog – parking instead of housing.
  • The War on Cars podcast – Housing for People, Not Cars (interview with PRN member Michael Andersen)

Airport Parking

  • Why Do Airports Not Want Us To Have Nice Things?
  • Parking garage at George Bush Intercontinental Airport to be demolished to make way for new Mickey Leland International Terminal

Parking Revenue

  • Less parking revenue, hotel taxes: NJ towns desperate to borrow after COVID revenue losses
  • Deadwood distributes $17.7K in parking funds to 16 non-profits
  • East Lansing parking revenue plummets

City News

  • Another great thread about potential reforms in Dallas, TX by PRN member Nathaniel Barrett.
  • Fayetteville, AR is studying more on-street car parking management.
  • Montreal, QC collects twice as much parking revenue as Toronto, ON
  • Newark City, DE is dealing with a car “parking shortage” at a popular park.
  • The Athletics baseball team in Oakland, CA is planning a new stadium complex with almost 9,000 new car parking stalls.
  • Springfield, OH officials looking at future of paid parking in downtown
  • Changes on the way for parking in Easton, PA
  • Adoption of license plate readers stirs privacy anxieties in Palo Alto, CA
  • Walthamstow, England residents fear losing jobs after parking removed

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

  • Could Boston, MA area transit go fare-free with a trio of taxes, including a tax on sales/leases of car parking stalls?

Streets are for People

  • Set children free: are playgrounds a form of incarceration?

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Parking Reform News

February 22, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

Parking Reform Network Posts

  • Are Parking Authorities Obsolete? If you’re wondering what a parking authority is or why they exist, PRN Board Member Mike Kwan has you covered in his post
  • How Do We Grade Parking? This is the second of a series of posts by PRN Research Intern Andrew Kiefaber. Part one is here.

Minimum Parking Requirements

  • An Assemblymember in the California State Legislature has proposed a bill which would prohibit residential car parking requirements near transit, statewide.
  • Guest column: Parking reform will help us create a sustainable future for Bend
  • The author of that column, PRN member Melanie Kebler also posted a great twitter thread about her efforts in Bend, OR
  • Laramie, WY is debating whether to reduce parking requirements by 30-50%

City News

  • Charlottesville, VA weighs whether $10 million slated for a car parking garage could be better spent on other things.
  • St. Louis, MO is redirecting $5 million from it’s parking reserves to fill COVID-19 related budget shortfalls.
  • Denver, CO’s transit board wants to redevelop underused park-and-ride lots into housing for humans.
  • A scenic outlook in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA will begin using a reservation system to manage some of it’s car parking stalls.
  • Hoboken, NJ is increasing parking meter rates to aim for a Shoupian 85% occupancy.
  • People living in their vehicles on Los Angeles, CA streets may face more difficulties in keeping their homes from being towed.

Odds and Ends

  • For Cities, Less Traffic Means Lost Revenue
  • How to Pay Bus Fares and Parking Meters in Google Maps
  • Prepare For Gridlock If Future For Autonomous Vehicles Is Plentiful Cheap Journeys

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Parking Reform News

February 15, 2021 By Tony Jordan Leave a Comment

We bring you this week’s parking reform news, big and small. Sometimes small things add up. Not having to stand on your tippy toes to pay parking. The ability to pay cash. Plugging in your EV. Have a look!

Better Uses for Car Parking

  • A former K-Mart cat parking lot in St. Paul, MN will become nearly 400 workforce and senior homes.
  • Streetsblog explores innovations in curbside secure bike parking.
  • An underground car parking lot in East Lansing, MI is being used as a socially-distant farmer’s market.
  • A Swedish national experiment called “one-minute city” repurposes curbside car parking for more active uses.
  • COVID has lead to many places streamlining and expanding programs to use curb space for higher purposes than car parking.

Opinions

  • Californians who live in multifamily housing such as apartments face an extra hurdle to electric vehicle ownership; changing the green building code can help.
  • Removing free parking in Vancouver is in the best interest for the environment.

City News

  • Leicester, England is the latest British city to implement a Workplace Parking Levy
  • Ann Arbor, MI is considering zoning changes, including fewer required car parking spaces, to allow for more housing to be built.
  • Colonial Williamsburg, VA continues to implement a performance based parking management plan.
  • Parking near this Oceanside, NY post office is “at a premium,” but not enough of a premium to pay for.
  • Auburn, AL is building a 350 stall parking garage, but only charges $1 an hour to park at the curb until 6pm, weekdays.
  • The saga of the Surf City, NC paid parking initiative is approaching the final steps.

Parking Meters and Enforcement

  • Saint John, New Brunswick council looks to increase parking ticket fines
  •  New Bedford Drivers Rack Up $100K in Parking Ban Fines
  • The meter vendor in Santa Cruz. CA donated $18,000 in holiday service fees to a local charity.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Brisbane parking meters to be permanently cashless
  • ‘Tiptoe Reach’: Tall Parking Meters Causing Issues In Watertown
  • Minneapolis mosque says Park Board’s refusal to sell land for parking infringes on religious liberty
  • Greensboro, NC wants to disallow people with unpaid parking tickets from renewing their car registrations.

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