“Hundreds of cities and municipalities have rolled back or completely thrown out” minimum parking mandates. “In 2022 alone, 15 of them, including #SanJose, Calif., #Raleigh, N.C., and #Lexington, Ky., repealed their parking rules.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/b... - ThreadSky

siegman.biz • 46 days ago

“Hundreds of cities and municipalities have rolled back or completely thrown out” minimum parking mandates. “In 2022 alone, 15 of them, including #SanJose, Calif., #Raleigh, N.C., and #Lexington, Ky., repealed their parking rules.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/business/city-parking-rules.html

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siegman.biz•46 days ago

“the rules have little to no bearing on actual demand for parking…the Parking Reform Network, a nonprofit that supports ending minimums, notes that parking minimums for bowling alleys in three California towns of similar size and within 25 miles of one another range from 2 to 5 spaces per lane”

siegman.biz•46 days ago

Sadly, this article makes almost no mention of the many ways that smart cities manage on-street parking, using prices and/or permits, to keep it readily available.

Here’s one way to do that.

cityengineer.bsky.social•46 days ago

What’s the fiscal
Impact on each city? Do any ban overnight parking on public streets? Who owns the nearby private parking garages?

siegman.biz•46 days ago

The fiscal impact varies. Minimum parking mandates reduce land values and the number of homes, shops & offices that can be built per acre. Often, they make it physically & financially feasible to redevelop vacant buildings with new uses. Usually, these factors reduce property & sales tax revenues.

siegman.biz•46 days ago

Removing the costly burden imposed by minimum parking mandates often results in long-vacant buildings being converted to new uses. More homes, shops & offices are built per acre, increasing tax revenues with relatively little additional infrastructure cost.
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2022/12/16/citywide-parking-reform-enables-reuse-vacant-buildings

siegman.biz•46 days ago

However, removing minimum parking mandates usually means that cities must devote more attention to managing on-street parking. When and where necessary, they may need to implement prices and/or permits to keep curb parking readily available.

siegman.biz•46 days ago

Managing curb parking using demand-based prices can raise substantial revenue, resulting in an additional positive fiscal impact.

siegman.biz•46 days ago

However, if a city chooses to hand out free residential parking permits to residents, that policy will add a new cost to manage street parking, albeit a relatively modest one. The overall fiscal impact in this case may still be positive, but maybe not. It depends on the specifics.

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