Vermont just upzoned the entire state!
https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/05/phil-scott-signs-home-bill-legalizing-duplexes-statewide-and-tweaking-act-250/
Allows duplex everywhere, allows up to 4 units where there's already water+sewer (to incentivize density rather than new sprawl), reduced parking minimums, and more!

#Vermont #zoning #upzone #parkingminimums #housing

WaPo sees #ParkingMinimums leading to:
-millions of parking spaces we don’t need. Each one costs us.
-addiction to free parking, a bad habit that harms health, businesses and cities. The main beneficiaries are cars, not people
-minimum parking requirements raise housing costs, subsidize car ownership and congestion, increase homelessness, deter transit and pollute the air

Parking spots cost $5,000 to $80,000 to build. Everyone pays, even the ones who don't drive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/02/eliminating-parking-minimums-liveable-cities/

#Richmond repeals minimum #parking requirements. Now it's time for more cities in #Virginia to follow suit, and prioritize housing for people, not cars.

https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/city-council-says-developers-will-no-longer-be-required-to-build-parking-spaces/article_d385ed1a-e2b8-11ed-95fd-5fed5f7899d8.html

#parkingminimums #RVA

#HousePeopleNotCars: Sightline estimates that in Portland eliminating #ParkingMinimums stands to make about 37,000 potential new #homes less expensive to develop, and therefore more likely to start construction, or 20 percent of Kotek’s new homebuilding target for the Portland metro area, and 10 percent of the entire state. 
https://www.sightline.org/2023/02/02/with-flexibility-over-parking-oregon-homebuilders-get-to-work/

Are parking minimums cause a waste of land in cities? Strong Towns says yes, and explains why in this video.

Parking minimums can be a barrier to new businesses who want to move into a city, possibly renovating an older building that doesn't conform to the new standards.

#ParkingMinimums #StrongTowns #CityPlanning #Politics #LocalPolitics #Traffic #Business

https://youtu.be/vUhOFUQDLQk

Props to @strongtowns for a great video on how #fayetteville, AR effectively removed #parkingminimums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhOFUQDLQk&t=484

#parking

Great video. Strong Towns is leveling up. I hope to see the widespread repeal of #ParkingMinimums in the US in my lifetime.
https://youtu.be/vUhOFUQDLQk

#parkingminimums #urbanism

I hope others can read this story (I’ve never tried pasting from Apple News). Wired sorry about changes to codes that require parking minimums.

“What’s finally sunk in with many people is that we have parking minimums and yet housing maximums, which means we have too many cars and too little housing. We have things the wrong way around,” said Shoup.

https://apple.news/Aeuoslc5DQVqB2KxhcTsHkw

“Driving has been subsidized with this negative regulatory intervention into the market through #ParkingMinimums, which has helped make housing less affordable and is killing the #climate. It’s mind-boggling to think about how long it took for the tide to change, but it is changing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

San Jose became the country’s largest municipality to abolish decades-old #ParkingMinimums that fueled vast concrete lots, commuter #sprawl, and became a roadblock to build more #housing, reduce #GreenhouseGas emissions & utilize the space for other things. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/07/bye-bye-parking-requirements-san-jose-becomes-largest-city-to-abolish-minimum-parking/amp/

#Cities Swap Costly #ParkingMinimums For Costly #ParkingMaximums

#Nashville is the latest #city to eliminate minimum #parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to #build.

https://reason.com/2022/11/22/cities-switch-from-requiring-too-many-parking-spaces-to-banning-too-many-parking-spaces/