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  • Portland mandates a parking U-turn

    Dec 27, 2022
    Author: Serena Larkin
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  • Shifting gears: Why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lot

    Dec 26, 2022
    Author: Serena Larkin
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  • Shifting gears: Parking reform gains traction

    Nov 28, 2022
    Author: Serena Larkin
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  • Anchorage Assembly Unites to End Parking Mandates

    Nov 23, 2022
    Author: Catie Gould
    Aerial photo of Anchorage, Alaska

    Photo from City of Anchorage, Assembly Work session on AO 2022-80 (S), November 18, 2022.

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  • How Portland’s Form of Government Makes It Hard to Find Parking

    Oct 27, 2022
    Author: Catie Gould
    Photo of cars parked in downtown Portland

    Portland Mall update- Parking by dieselboii used under CC BY 2.0

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  • Big Reforms, Big Growth: Buffalo’s Parking Rewrite Pays Off

    Oct 12, 2022
    Author: Catie Gould
    New apartments and retail at 15 Allen Street, Buffalo, New York. Image from Google Earth.

    New apartments and retail at 15 Allen Street, Buffalo, New York. Image from Google Earth.

    As more cities and states lift costly parking mandates, what will happen next? Chris Hawley has seen the future. Hawley, first as an activist, then as a city planner in Buffalo, New York, worked to remove minimum parking requirements citywide in 2017 under the city’s new form-based “Green Code.” (“Form-based” focuses on building form, including its physical appearance and relation to the street, rather than regulating uses, like commercial or...
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  • Save Anchorage from Parking Mandates

    Sep 30, 2022
    Author: Jeannette Lee and Catie Gould
    A large empty lot in downtown Anchorage

    Empty downtown Anchorage lot. Photo credit: Catie Gould

    Anchorage needs parking. The city was built around cars and so almost everyone uses them, whether they want to or not. Naturally we need a place to put them. But who should have the power to decide how much parking Anchorage’s homes and businesses need? It’s a question that’s come up in cities and states across the US. City zoning codes tend to dictate how many parking spaces, say, a...
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  • Parking reform is key to building bike-friendly cities

    Sep 1, 2022
    Author: Webster Chang
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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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