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Following Oregon, more states consider ending parking mandates
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Oregon’s under-the-radar parking revolution
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Parking Mandates Are Vanishing Across Oregon
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With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work
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Oregon Just Slashed Parking Mandates. 5 Things That Might Happen Next
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,...Read more » -
Affordable Housing in Oregon Is About to Catch a Big Break from Parking Mandates
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...Read more » -
Oregon Nears Green Light for Big Parking Reform
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...Read more » -
Oregon Has a Chance to Sharply Cut Urban Parking Mandates
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...Read more » -
Oregon Just Ended Excessive Parking Mandates On Most Urban Lots
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...Read more » -
Oregon’s Land Use Law Creates Wildfire-Adapted Communities
