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Transportation + Transit

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Parking Reform Alone Can Boost Homebuilding by 40 to 70 Percent

Takeaways Making parking fully flexible could unlock more new homes than other land use reforms combined, according to new research out of Colorado that modeled how multiple policies would impact economic feasibility for new housing projects.  The findings add to a growing body of evidence that making off-street parking optional …

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Parking Mandates Are Keeping Kids Out of Daycare

Takeaways Children can’t drive cars. Yet across Cascadia, onerous rules defining how much parking new daycares must provide on-site are …
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Bellingham’s Parking Reform Pilot Pays Off

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. Bellingham’s industrial …
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Unlock Middle Housing with Parking Reform

Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. In …
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Inside Minnesota’s People over Parking Act, with Chris Meyer

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. If Minnesota …
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How Parking Ratios Kill Homes

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. The trouble …
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From Vermont to Oklahoma, Legislatures Challenge Parking Mandates

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. In the …
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Kathryn (Kate) Anderson

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Meet the Team

Michael Andersen

Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead.

Michael leads Sightline’s work transitioning Cascadia away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.

Catie Gould

Senior Researcher

Laura is a fellow with Sightline Institute, focused on energy policy, particularly natural gas infrastructure and building decarbonization.

Transportation + Transit research in the news

Seattle set to double down on arbitrary parking mandates

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Spokane just ditched parking mandates. What’s stopping the rest of Washington?

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Here’s what happened after the city of Anchorage axed parking mandates

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Proposal would add another $100 million to Seattle transportation levy

The Columbian

Mobility Advocates Find Strong Support for Bigger Levy in Poll, Council Deliberates

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Why parking reform goes hand in hand with more housing

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