Posts about Parking Minimums

Back and forth on parking minimums : In the most mild-mannered war of words the internet has seen in a while, Cato's Randal O'Toole responds to Donald Shoup's response to O'Toole's original reaction to Tyler Cowen's op-ed about Shoup's book. Did you follow all that? (Michael Perkins) (Comment · Share)

If you're building in San Francisco: An affordable housing complex planned in San Francisco faces stiff opposition from neighbors upset that the building will only provide a total of five parking spaces for its 71 units. On average each parking space in SF adds $30,000 to the construction cost of each unit. (SF Chronicle via Planetizen) (Comment · Share)

Yglesias on cities: Matt Yglesias talks urbanism with the Atlantic, and advocates for better buses, removing parking minimums, and the way many conservatives oppose market-oriented policies just because cities are full of liberals. (Comment · Share)

No minimums in downtown Frederick?: The City of Frederick may repeal parking minimums for development in their historic downtown area. (WTOP) (Comment · Share)

Tysons to limit parking: Tysons planners aren't entirely wimpy: they're proposing parking maximums for new Tysons development to try to push walkable development, though there also will be minimums. (WBJ, Madison) (Comment · Share)

Houston vs. NYC: Houston may be the most car-dependent major US city and New York the least, but both are trying to move toward the other. New York's Planning Department "sabotages sustainability" with its minimum parking requirements, ironically greater near subway stations than farther away (Streetsblog) ... Houston's new mayor, meanwhile, wants to explore making transit free to grow ridership. (Houston Chronicle)
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Curbing curb cuts in SF: Curb cuts and front-facing garages mar San Francisco's streetscape, in many blocks on nearly every single row house. That's bad for pedestrians and removes on-street parking, and some landlords have even evicted lower-income tenants to build garages. The Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance limiting curb cuts, preventing converting residential units into parking, and removing parking minimums in the North Beach and Chinatown neighborhoods. (Transbay Blog) (Comment · Share)

Lights, camera, zoning: Montgomery County faces a class-action lawsuit over paying speed camera contractors per ticket, which may violate the law ... Gaithersburg may reduce parking minimums to the County's still-high levels ... A proposed "CR" zone for mixed-use development may not get approval for Kensington or Takoma Park. (Gazette) (Comment · Share)

Money for less free parking: The California Senate approved financial incentives for cities to reduce free parking and reduce minimum parking requirements. (LA Times, Ben) (Comment · Share)

The High Cost of Free Parking: the movie: Two New Zealanders have created a video discussing the problems with mandatory parking minimums and other "hidden parking subsidies." (Human Transit, Michael P) (Comment · Share)