It’s easy to take car parking for granted. For generations our cities have required nearly every new building — be it a home, an office, a restaurant, or a bowling alley — to provide off-street car storage and the result is that parking is so ubiquitous that people only notice it when they can’t find it or have to pay to use it. The impacts of all this parking include higher rents, sprawl, and car dependency, feeding into a vicious cycle of more cars, more parking, wider roads, and more sprawl. The good news is that there is a simple prescription to halt and reverse this condition: eliminate parking mandates, manage on-street parking using pricing, and use the revenues to improve the neighborhood and encourage less driving. But be warned, once you see the truth about cheap and abundant parking, you’ll never be the same.
Join Tony Jordan from the Parking Reform Network as he shares strategies for parking reform to support housing affordability.
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