If your city is no longer allowed to send housing projects before an architectural review board with the power to kill them, try a new tack. Hold competitions for the most beautiful new buildings & places. Let the board pick the winners. Sometimes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

#Firefighters and #paramedics should loudly support transit-only lanes (which, despite the name, are open to emergency response vehicles).

If you think #Bluesky is an echo chamber, you aren't posting enough about the many benefits of charging for parking!

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

NYC residents who own cars make 2x those who don’t. @mayor.nyc.gov doesn’t need to tax the rich to close the looming $12.6 billion budget gap, he just needs to make them pay market rate for parking.

Every time a conservative says “We are a nation of laws,“ cities should install another speed camera.

"Even with kickoff still hours away, the traffic on the way to the Super Bowl is forcing some people to abandon their rideshares and walk on the freeway to get to Levi’s Stadium." Crowds make urban places lively. They make suburbs a nightmare.

""I've told people ‘Hey, yeah, you can park here for $50 for the game or event,’” Nguyen said, who noted the paid lots typically are priced between $60 and $80, but can be much higher... and are nearly $200 at the cheapest for Sunday’s Super Bowl." One man's nuisance is another's opportunity.

"During the game, parking prices around Hard Rock Stadium skyrocketed, with the cheapest available spaces going for $747. More than 800 fans used the platform...saving more than $500,000, all while allowing locals to share in the game’s profits..." It's nice to see a thriving parking market!😊

Who says parking policy is boring?

This is deeply moving. The needs and wants of consultants like me are so often forgotten.

"Placer County plans to start charging for parking at two more lots in #KingsBeach later this year. They say, they could also raise rates at two additional lots after a 2024-2025 pilot program showed 'promising' results."

How about requiring an external audit of claims that #Caltrans has been using state funds illegally and retaliating against whistleblowers who complain about it?

Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex. In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.

A small group of rich NIMBYs used #CEQA, a California environmental law, to block the conversion of a parking lot into affordable housing. After a 5-year legal battle they lost the case, but they succeeded in delaying the project for so long that it lost its funding. So, it can’t break ground yet.

Missoula. Montana. In Boston still have single-family exclusive zones and other areas where even a classic triple decker can't be built by-right, not to mention a whole mess of costly parking mandates. There's no reason, other than political will, that we can't do this in Boston.

Missoula, Montana has just: - Eliminated single family zoning - Eliminated parking requirements citywide - Allows 100-125' of height in many of its mixed-use zones with no limits on density or FAR Why is Missoula so much more progressive than Los Angeles?

@govwesmoore.bsky.social agenda emphasizes housing near transit and reducing barriers such as minimum parking requirements in certain transit-oriented areas. The proposal also includes the Starter and Silver Homes Act, which would expand housing options by allowing smaller single-family homes

"Digital sales have been a major driver of growth lately. Walmart’s e-commerce business includes curbside pickup, same-day delivery…" Can anyone think of a city where planners analyzed how e-commerce and curbside pickup affect parking demand, and recommended reducing parking mandates accordingly?

“Today’s declining rents, and the forces precipitating them, have been in motion since well before the current administration,” said Rob Warnock, the lead economic researcher at Apartment List, which uses rental listings and U.S. Census data as the basis of its reports.

"The Globe is right: The MBTA Communities Act is a success. After decades of saying no to housing, 165 MBTA communities now have multifamily districts; about 7000 homes are in the production pipeline; accessory dwelling units are allowed in every municipality; and..."

"Laflamme said the biggest takeaway in the 28-page report was that #Chicago 'grossly' overbuilt parking relative to demand. It examined 40 residential buildings throughout the city and found one-third of the parking spaces were left unused during peak occupancy."

"The pro-density measures would allow 'in-law suites,' facilitate the construction of duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes, prohibit parking minimums in new developments and prevent what some legislators see as 'arbitrary limits on unrelated roommates'... — what some call the Golden Girls Law."

2026 is starting out strong for parking reform as a couple prominent college towns repeal *all* of their parking mandates: let's hear it for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Missoula, Montana!

Very comprehensive Vox article on building code research and reform efforts across the country, fearing John Zeanah’s report for the Center for Building on low-rise multifamily housing and Michael Eriksen’s academic work on building code costs www.vox.com/future-perfe... (gift link)

It's pretty simple, you can care about preserving free curbside parking or you can care about housing costs, homelessness and climate change.

“’The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment,‘ concluded the National Institute of Justice in its review of the evidence.“ This is why speed safety cameras increase safety more than harsh punishments for drivers who kill people.

" #Oakland DOT was out painting a corner near my home last November. As I've written about, perhaps ad nauseam, paint alone doesn't work. And sure enough, moments after the crew left, before the new red paint had even dried, the Cintas truck pictured below was parked in the daylighting zone."

The phrase "tight neighborhood" appears to be a New England phrase that means "curb parking in our neighborhood is underpriced and overcrowded." If someone gave each #NewBedford City Councilor a copy of Parking and the City, they'd probably loosen up!

"A FIFA spokesperson, when asked to justify the prices, told The Athletic that 'parking prices are determined based on local market conditions'..." Good answer. I wish reporters would ask cities to justify below-cost prices that lead to overcrowded curbs & drivers circling in search of free parking

"Kelowna is also looking to implement regulations around off-street parking in provincially mandated Transit-Oriented Areas (TOAs) created to support high-density housing... Developments in these areas have minimum parking requirements removed..." Provinces can lead when local governments fail.👍

#SanFrancisco law “‘prohibits parking in driveways located in required front setbacks and yards,’ unless there’s a screen or a fence on both sides of the vehicle.” Why did San Francisco pass this law?

We're building homes and Cutting the Tape.

Last night, Missoula, Montana notched a HUGE zoning reform win. They achieved: 1️⃣ Shifted single-family only zones to 4 to 12 homes per lot (depending on zone) 2️⃣ Reduced minimum lot sizes 3️⃣Eliminated (❗) parking mandates citywide (‼️) ...And more!

“Officials enacted a similar fee [$3/day for parking] at the Harbor Bay stop last year, and found that it helped encourage people to walk or bike to the transit hubs, while managing demand for lots that might otherwise fill up early in the morning.”

New research finds negligible benefit from "minimum passing distance" laws requiring drivers to give cyclists space when overtaking them. Protected bike lanes are far more effective. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

An “SFMTA study from 2019 that evaluated the parking-protected bike lane on Valencia Street…found that ‘the proportion of people loading in the bike lane decreased from 60.5% to 0.7%,’ and that there was a 95% decrease in ‘vehicle/bike interactions,’ or close calls and near-dooring incidents.“

Trading asphalt for affordability 🥳 Bellevue, WA, is reviewing outdated parking mandates to align with state law and clear the way for more affordable homes in thriving neighborhoods.

After adopting housing reforms that included eliminating parking mandates and increased density limits throughout the city, Bothell has seen a major jump in pre-applications for residential projects. Average number of units entering pre-application over the past 5 years: 580 In 2025: 1000+

California eliminated parking requirements near transit. The result? Less dramatic than supporters promised — and less disruptive than critics feared. This policy brief finds AB 2097’s impact depends heavily on local interpretation. www.its.ucla.edu/pub...

"The Mayor's office confirmed the city is already short nearly $9 million from original revenue projections for the program." Sigh. Cities so often fail to realize that when prices go up, demand goes down. It's better to start with low fees. Then, raise rates until supply & demand are balanced.

Salem City Council voted to repeal the Downtown Parking Tax at a meeting on Monday, advancing the latest change to how the Oregon capital covers parking in its urban core." If motorists pay for the parking they use, we all pay lower taxes.

Legitimate economic research is usually published in a reputable economics journal. It’s also been reviewed by peers, with real economic credentials, before publication. If you are citing only pre-prints, well, maybe your claims can’t survive peer review.

"The City of Castlegar has more parking spaces than it needs according to a recent report commissioned by the city.... Occupancy surveys done in May, August, and November 2025 found overall downtown parking utilization at 42%." Same old story! Minimum parking mandates lead to unused asphalt.

Are any companies currently offering turnkey installation of #ADUs in California? #Abodu used this approach, but this thread indicates the firm shut down in 2025.

Research shows that minimum parking mandates worsen traffic, but the development services director for #Glencoe says removing them near transit will “limit the village’s ability to...mitigate impact from traffic, parking, drop-off, circulation & things like that.” How can we help towns like this?