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  • Following Oregon, more states consider ending parking mandates

    Jul 25, 2023
    Author: Webster Chang
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  • Oregon’s under-the-radar parking revolution

    Jul 7, 2023
    Author: Webster Chang
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  • Parking Mandates Are Vanishing Across Oregon

    Jun 30, 2023
    Author: Catie Gould
    Photo of a goatee'd person in a grey shirt and black cap inside a video arcade

    Jordan Elting at his business, Reset Button Arcade, in Tigard. He spent months waiting for permission to serve beer at his strip-mall location, despite a permit to do so, because it triggered higher parking requirements. New state parking rules resolved the issue. Photo by Catie Gould.

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  • With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work

    Feb 2, 2023
    Author: Catie Gould

    Oregon's new parking reforms mean mid-size infill projects (potentially like the above) will be able to get to market with less delay and lower costs. Photo: Truebeck Construction. (Creative Commons) 

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  • Oregon Just Slashed Parking Mandates. 5 Things That Might Happen Next

    Jul 22, 2022
    Author: Michael Andersen and Catie Gould
    A parking lot in downtown Portland, Oregon with a very cool graffiti art prominent

    A parking lot in downtown Portland, Oregon. Photo: Wayne Hsieh (Creative Commons)

    On Thursday, Oregon approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in modern US history. The unanimous vote by the state’s land use commission came through an unusual channel: an administrative action, ordered by the governor, that breathed new ambition into the broadly written land use laws that have gradually shaped Oregon for 50 years. The law in question gives the state board the power to set land use rules that,...
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  • Affordable Housing in Oregon Is About to Catch a Big Break from Parking Mandates

    Jul 7, 2022
    Author: Catie Gould
    Photo of an empty lot on an otherwise sunny day at an affordable apartment

    Photo by Catie Gould

    Avelina Cabantan, 84, has never had a driver’s license. Her husband always drove. But after he passed away in 2003, what she really needed was a home she could afford on her own. Cabantan has seen her share of hard times. She grew up poor in the Philippines, at one point pawning her mother’s ring to afford a $10 document fee that would give her children a future in the...
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  • Oregon Nears Green Light for Big Parking Reform

    May 21, 2022
    Author: Michael Andersen
    Google Earth image of a Walmart parking lot

    Walmart in Wood Village, Oregon. (Photo from Google Earth.)

    Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved these rules on a permanent basis. The first round of parking reforms, removing mandates near transit, for smaller homes, and for regulated-affordable homes, are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023, in the state’s eight largest metro areas. Oregon’s statewide land use board declared its support Thursday for rules that, among other things, reduce or remove parking mandates in...
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  • Oregon Has a Chance to Sharply Cut Urban Parking Mandates

    May 16, 2022
    Author: Michael Andersen and Catie Gould
    image of a typical small US city's main street, with two-to-three story buildings built immediately against each other and no parking lots. several cars and a pickup are parked along the curb.

    Downtown Oregon City by Wayne Hseih used under CC BY-NC 2.0

    Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved these rules on a permanent basis. The first round of parking reforms, removing mandates near transit, for smaller homes, and for regulated-affordable homes, are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023, in the state’s eight largest metro areas. About 100 years ago, governments started redesigning cities around cars. On Thursday, Oregon could approve a major step to prioritize space...
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  • Oregon Just Ended Excessive Parking Mandates On Most Urban Lots

    Dec 14, 2020
    Author: Michael Andersen
    fourplex with six parking spaces

    In many Oregon cities, this is how a fourplex would be legally required to look---1.5 off-street parking spaces per home---without the new state rules. (Notice that these driveways eliminated four or five curbside parking spaces.) Photo: Mark McClure, used with permission.

    The movement to prioritize housing for people over storage for cars has reached a new high point in the Pacific Northwest. In the first action of this kind by any US state, Oregon’s state land use board voted unanimously last week to sharply downsize dozens of local parking mandates on duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, and cottages. Many cities have reduced or eliminated parking mandates in recent years, including Oregon’s largest...
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  • Oregon’s Land Use Law Creates Wildfire-Adapted Communities

    Jul 25, 2023
    Author: Kate Anderson
    Side-by-side map showing the two different growth plans for Bend, OR -- one expanding into fireplains, and the other with infill.
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