Parking Policy
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NEW BROOM: Sanitation Boss Restores Full Street Sweeping and Commits to Bike Lane Cleaning
The city will restore full street sweeping, ending the de Blasio administration's Covid-era reduction in alternate-side-of-the-street parking that led to filthier streets as entitled drivers frequently didn't bother to move their cars.
April 18, 2022
Builder Wants Atlantic Ave. Tower to be a Model for Pedestrian-Friendly Development on Deadly Corridor
“It's a 180-degree shift," said the project's architect.
March 24, 2022
Brooklyn Pols Tell Developers to Eliminate Parking or Else
Mandatory parking rules drive up housing costs and incentivize car ownership, elected officials say.
March 1, 2022
Analysis: The Decline and Fall of Mandatory Parking Minimums
Was 2021 the year that U.S. planners finally lost faith in minimum parking requirements? It certainly seems so.
February 1, 2022
So is Eric Adams’s ‘Asst. Parking Director’ Brother Qualified to Head Mayoral Security?
From parking cars to protecting the second-most-important public official in the United States?
January 12, 2022
New D.C. Law Makes Employers Refund Workers Who Reject Pro-Driving Benefits
Many employers in Washington, D.C. are now required to pay workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits — a model for other American cities who want to stop incentivizing commuters to drive.
January 7, 2022
Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots
At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.
January 3, 2022
NYPD Bombshell: New ‘All Agency’ Policy on Placard Abuse Coming Soon
The dying de Blasio administration will apparently make one last effort to curb illegal use of parking certificates.
December 17, 2021
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure — And His Hopes For the Future
"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
November 22, 2021
Opinion: American Parking Policy is the Real Socialism
"There may be massive inequities in other aspects of life, but each citizen is guaranteed equal access to adequate parking spaces." - Joe Cortright
October 26, 2021
