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Type Article
Year 2009
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source ACCESS Magazine, University of California Transportation Center
Policy Areas Community Development, Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
The issue of increased traffic congestion in areas with Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) due to dense development and the need for parking despite higher transit use. The city should integrate carsharing options within TODs to reduce the necessity for personal vehicle ownership...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2021
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source Boston City Council
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Transportation & Mobility
This ordinance regulates the towing industry in Boston in order to prevent predatory towing practices that harm consumers. It establishes specific requirements for towing companies, including mandatory signage, reporting requirements, mandatory displaying of rates schedules, compensation...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
As a federally-funded demonstration, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) purposefully and openly shares information about implementing the SFpark pilot project that other cities might find useful as they consider how to manage parking. This book summarizes the...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source SPARCC
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Transportation & Mobility
Parking policies are an integral part of implementing equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD). Policies such as “free parking” (which increases housing and consumer costs), zoning and land use regulations that require an overabundancce of parking, and the application of suburban...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
SFpark was a federally-funded demonstration of a new approach to managing parking. It used better information, including real-time data where parking is available, and demand-responsive parking pricing to help make parking easier to find....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source City of Austin
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance establishes a parking benefit district program. A parking benefit district is an area in which a percentage of the funds collected from a paid parking space is used to fund improvements that promote walking, cycling, and public transit within the district. This ordinance...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) Illinois
Source Center for Neighborhood Technology
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development
The Problem with Parking Minimums, analysis of parking in Chicago region, and policy toolkit. EVERY COMMUNITY NEEDS SOME PARKING, BUT WITH THE RIGHT SIZE OF SUPPLY, NEIGHBORHOODS CAN TILT THE SCALES TO DEDICATE MORE SPACE TO PEOPLE THAN TO CARS. THIS IN TURN WILL ALLOW US TO CREATE...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) -
Source Center for Neighborhood Technology
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology
The District Department of Transportation and the District of Columbia Office of Planning led an effort to develop an empirical model for parking utilization in Washington, D.C, and to apply that model to an interactive, web-based tool utilizing the model named ParkRight DC, to support...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States, Wisconsin
Source State Smart Transportation Initiative
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
To manage parking provisions and minimize the negative impacts of excess parking effectively, policy makers need a full understanding of how much existing parking is used and how factors affect its use. This paper presents a study of multi-family residential parking occupancy and...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source City of Houston
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance designates Houston's Washington Avenue Corridor as a parking benefit district. All fees and revenues generated from the use of parking meters in a parking benefit district shall be used to fund administrative costs of parking meters (i.e. signage, enforcement, maintenance)...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) Michigan
Source City Of Muskegon
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement
This document establishes vehicular and bicycle off-street parking standards. This code focuses heavily on incremental infill development, which will enable applicants and the City to strategically accommodate parking needs while not comprising the urban form desired within downtown...

Type Article
Year 2007
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source ACCESS Magazine, Number 31, Fall 2007
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility
Commuters in the Bay Area face difficulties in finding parking spots at BART stations, leading to wasted time and fuel, and deterring potential transit users. This article outlines how smart parking systems that integrate advanced technologies like in-ground sensors, real-time reservation...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2001
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety
The purpose of this Community Benefits Program for the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Project is to provide for a coordinated effort between the Coalition and the Developer to maximize the benefits of the Project to the Figueroa Corridor community. This Community Benefits...

Type Article
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) California, New York
Source ACCESS Magazine, Number 38, Spring 2011
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
Street parking is underpriced and overcrowded, leading to significant traffic congestion and negative environmental impacts from drivers cruising for parking spaces. Localities should implement performance pricing for curb parking, adjusting prices based on occupancy rates to ensure...

Type Article
Year 2023
Level City or Town, National, State
State(s) California
Source University of California Transportation Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Health, Transportation & Mobility
The challenges presented by climate change and the expiration of federal funding for transit demands a major overhaul in policy that coordinates transportation systems with land use, energy, and public health goals. California has made significant progress with congestion pricing...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level State
State(s) Hawaii
Source State Smart Transportation Initiative
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
This report compares estimates of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in Hawaii under current conditions versus VMT when policies are implemented to manage travel demand. These policies include transportation demand management (employer-based programs that encourage employees to carpool,...

Type Article
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California, Colorado, Washington
Source ACCESS Almanac
Policy Areas Community Development, Transportation & Mobility
A shortage of curb parking during the peak holiday shopping season is created by free parking policies, leading to increased traffic congestion and pollution. The city should donate all parking meter revenue in December to support the homeless population, rather than offering free...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source U.S. Dept Of Transportation Federal Highway Administration
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
United States drivers were introduced to the concept of paid, on-street parking in 1935 when the first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City. In the ensuing decades little was done to improve the basic tools or processes of parking pricing. Many cities arbitrarily set fixed...

Type Article
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source THE ACCESS ALMANAC
Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
The problem of increasing peak-hour energy demand created by new developments and the underutilization of solar power in parking lots is addressed. Cities or towns should amend their zoning codes to require solar power installations in parking lots of new buildings, specifying a certain...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source State Smart Transportation Initiative
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
Many cities include minimum parking requirements in their zoning codes and provide ample parking for public use. However, parking is costly to provide and encourages increased automobile use, which is linked to traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and negative health and...

Type Article
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source ACCESS Magazine
Policy Areas Community Development, Transportation & Mobility
Overcrowded on-street parking and undersupplied public services in low-income neighborhoods calls for parking pricing reforms to manage demand and use the revenue to finance local public services. This policy relates to urban planning, transportation management, and public service...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Transit Center
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility
The federal tax benefit for commuter parking excludes the value of commuter parking provided by employers from the calculation of a worker’s taxable income. The “check” is bigger for people who make more money or work in the downtown areas of major cities, but the costs of the program...

Type Article
Year 2003
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Access Magazine, Number 23, Fall 2003
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
Cities should earmark parking meter revenue for public improvements in the neighborhoods where it is collected, thereby creating a local interest in charging appropriate prices for curb parking. This article outlines the benefits of local redistribution of parking meter revenue, Infrastructure...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) Minnesota
Source City of St. Paul
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
The Downtown Saint Paul Parking Management Strategy is a six-month effort that documents current parking activities, examines expected future parking, and recommends a series of strategies to achieve City goals. In order to establish a baseline of the current state of on-street, off-street,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2022
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source Nelson Nygaard
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility
Transportation demand management (TDM) programs support and incentivize healthier, more environmentally sustainable transportation behaviors. This report provides an overview of the most prominent and effective options cities can take to advance TDM objectives; these include congestion...

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