We’ve assembled a guide to three towns and cities of varying sizes that have recently revised their parking regulations. That way, when you decide to pursue parking reform in your own community, you can use them as examples of how parking reform strengthens cities.
Read MoreCreating change requires a lot of energy and momentum, but you don't have to generate it all by yourself. You can identifying existing trends and events to give your advocacy more power. One of these trends is parking season.
Read MoreWhen the owners of Lawrence Hall bought the abandoned building, they had a vision of reviving it into a food hall that would support small businesses and help their community thrive. They never imagined that a few parking spots would put their dream on hold for seven years.
Read MoreDallas wasn't built for the car: it was paved over for it. This new bill can help it rebuild.
Read MoreTony Jordan of the Parking Reform Network and Chris Meyer, legislative assistant to Senator Omar Fateh, talk all things parking reform on this week’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.
Read MoreSome complain that getting rid of parking mandates is just an underhanded way of making auto use harder and harder in cities. But harder for whom, exactly?
Read MoreLocal officials in Dallas are considering eliminating minimum parking requirements in the city—and predictably, the measure has both critics and proponents.
Read MoreThe parking reform bill Strong Towns has endorsed is necessary to get Minnesota cities unstuck.
Read MoreMinnesota legislators have introduced a bill that would eliminate minimum parking mandates statewide—and Strong Towns was there to cheer them on.
Read MoreTransit Alliance Miami, a transit and mobility advocacy group, hopes to encourage the development of more types of housing in Florida with draft legislation that would repeal costly parking minimums.
Read MoreSixty letters of opposition from local advocates in Grand Rapids, MI, halted an irreversible decision: the teardown of five downtown buildings for surface parking lots.
Read MoreDurham, North Carolina, has become the ninth largest city to eliminate parking mandates for new developments citywide.
Read MoreThis New York City nonprofit decided to show how much valuable space is wasted by parking…by converting two parking spaces into a studio apartment!
Read More#BlackFridayParking is approaching, and we want to share some of the latest cities in North America that have challenged decades-old parking requirements that have wasted productive land on automobile storage.
Read MoreEach year on Parking Day, coveted curbside parking spaces in Denton, TX, are claimed by couches, games, potted plants, information tables, and conversations about the city’s future.
Read MoreIt’s time to abolish mandatory parking minimums! The Parking Reform Network is partnering with Climate Changemakers for an “Hour of Action.”
Read MoreIn Minneapolis and St. Paul, parking reform has helped increase the overall supply of homes, reduce the cost of construction, and shift the cities toward a less car-centric design.
Read MoreBy changing a single word in its parking code, Norman, OK, was able to slow the spread of parking lots and remove a major barrier to entry for small developers.
Read MoreHartford, CT, was the first city in the U.S. to repeal parking minimums. So…why is its downtown still 22% parking lots?
Read MoreIn recent years, a rapidly growing number of cities across North America have begun repealing harmful, wasteful parking minimums. Here are a few highlights from the first half of 2023.
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