Show us what you wish your city would do with *all* that parking!

This year proves, more than ever, that we need to free our cities from the straitjacket of parking minimums. So we’re kicking off our annual #BlackFridayParking campaign…but with a 2020 twist.

Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2019

We’re in the waning hours of this year’s #BlackFridayParking campaign. Here are just a few highlights.

6 Ways to Take Back Your Community from the "Parking Void"

We paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Here are a few ways people around North America are taking paradise back.

SoCal is So Addicted to Cars. Should They Get Rid of Parking Minimums Anyway?

Sure, it’s all well and good to talk about ending parking minimums. But what about doing it in ultra-car-dependent Los Angeles?

Grab Your Camera. It's Black Friday Parking Day!

Here's how to participate in our annual #BlackFridayParking event today.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 29, 2019parking minimums, #blackfridayparking

Parking Dominates Our Cities. But Do We Really *See* It?

We don’t pay a ton of attention to parking lots in our day-to-day lives—nobody makes postcards of scenic or historic ones—yet parking dominates and shapes the built environment around us more than any other factor. Here’s how to start seeing parking—and the damage it does when we build too much of it.

Free Parking Makes Me Wanna Shoup

No one person has done more to change the conversation about parking minimums and how they harm our cities than UCLA economist Donald Shoup. If you don’t know his work, now’s the time to get acquainted.

How Incremental Development Came to Miami

Often, what prevents the incremental development movement from taking root in a community isn’t lack of will, knowhow, or resources. Here’s how a change to Miami’s parking minimum rules opened the door for small-scale development in The Magic City.

Every City Should Abolish Its Minimum Parking Requirements. Has Yours?

The movement to end harmful, wasteful minimum parking requirements is picking up steam in cities large and small across America. We’re doing our best to play a part in it.

Ending Parking Minimums is the Holiday Gift that Keeps on Giving

Help us spread the word about #BlackFridayParking. Get a holiday gift you'll actually want.

The Best of #BlackFridayParking 2018

Catch up on what you missed from #BlackFridayParking week this year, including our favorite social media shares.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 26, 2018parking minimums

More Cities Than Ever Are Eliminating Parking Minimums

See which cities are getting rid of parking minimums, from sea to shining sea.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 23, 2018parking minimums, maps, mapping, resource

How to Talk to a Skeptic About Reducing Parking Requirements

If you have an objection on the tip of your tongue when it comes to removing parking minimums or providing less free parking, let’s see if we can answer it.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 23, 2018parking minimums

Grab Your Camera. It's #BlackFridayParking Time Again.

While your fellow Americans are busy fighting each other for 50% off toys and discounted televisions at the stores in your town, you have a job: Snap some photos of the parking lots surrounding these stores.

#BlackFridayParkingStrong TownsNovember 23, 2018

It's Time to Redefine the Single Occupancy Vehicle

I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StorySarah KobosNovember 21, 2018cycling, car dependency, minimum parking requirements

A Guide to Busting Parking Myths in Your Town

“There’s no parking around there!” How to hit the streets and collect the data yourself, and figure out whether your neighborhood actually has a parking shortage—or, more likely, an excess.

The Many Costs of Too Much Parking

Requiring excessive parking comes at a heavy cost to the vitality and financial resilience of our cities. Have you ever wanted a one-stop list of the many ways this is the case? We did too. So we made one.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 20, 2018cost of parking, end parking mandates and subsidies

It's 2018. Does your city still have minimum parking requirements?

There is no justification for a city to maintain minimum parking requirements, to force others to build parking, or to build parking for others to use at no charge.

#BlackFridayParking, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnNovember 19, 2018parking minimums

It's Time to Redefine the Single Occupancy Vehicle

I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions. On foot, we are nimble, responsive, and shaped to maximize the utilization of space. A crowd of people is not a traffic jam, it’s a party!

#BlackFridayParkingSarah KobosNovember 19, 2018cycling, car dependency, minimum parking requirements