Parking Reforms
Charge demand-based prices for on-street parking to create one or two open spaces on every block
- “Gone Parkin’,” The New York Times
- “Parking Price Therapy,” Planning Magazine
- “SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Cruising for Parking,” Transport Policy
- “Cruising for Parking,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Getting the Prices Right, An Evaluation of Pricing Parking by Demand in San Francisco,” Journal of the American Planning Association
- “The Right Price for Curb Parking,” Retooling Metropolis
- “Parking Spaces Are Perishable Goods,” Parking Today
- “What Share of Traffic is Cruising for Parking,” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.
- Is 30 Percent of Traffic Cruising for Parking? Parking Today
Charge demand-based prices for off-street parking to optimize occupancy
- “Optimal Pricing of Public Garages,” Transfers
- “Optimizing the Use of Parking Garages: Pricing Parking by Demand,” Transport Policy
Use the revenue from on-street parking to finance public services on the metered blocks
- “How to Improve San Francisco, One Parking Space at a Time, San Francisco Chronicle
- “How to Fix New York’s Parking Problems,” New York Times
- “Turning Small Change Into Big Changes,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Turning Small Change Into Big Changes,” The High Cost of Free Parking
- “Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad,” The High Cost of Free Parking
- “Informal Parking on Sidewalks: The Broken Windows Effect,” California Policy Options 2014
- “Informal Parking,” Parking and the City
- “Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services,” Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang, “Parking Benefit Districts in China,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Parking Benefit Districts,” ACCESS Magazine
Remove minimum parking requirements
- “The High Cost of Parking Requirements,” Parking and the City
- “The Unequal Burden of Parking Requirements,” Parking and the City
- “Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements,” Parking and the City”
- “Cutting the Cost of Parking Requirements,” ACCESS Magazine
- “On-Street Parking Management v. Off-Street Parking Requirements,” ACCESS Magazine
- “The Trouble With Minimum Parking Requirements,” Transportation Research Part A
- “Instead of Free Parking,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Free Parking or Free Markets,” ACCESS Magazine
- Problems with Parking Requirements in Zoning Ordinances
- “Quantity Versus Quality in Off-Street Parking Requirements,” Journal of the American Planning Association
Offer commuters the option to cash out their employer-paid parking subsidies
- “Parking Cash Out,” Los Angeles Times
- Executive Summary of Parking Cash Out
- “Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking,” Parking and the City
- “The Scourge of Free Parking,” Los Angeles Times
- “Congress Okays Cash Out,” ACCESS Magazine
- Parking Cash Out, American Planning Association
- “Evaluating the Effects of Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking: Eight Case Studies,” Transport Policy
- “Parking Cash Out,” StreetsblogLA
- “Extra Cash or Free Parking,” California Legislative Analyst’s Office
Convert garages into apartments
- “Converting Garages into Housing,”Journal of Planning Education and Research
- “Garage Apartments,” Zoning Practice
- “Converting Garages for Cars into Housing for People,” Transfers
- “How Single-Family Garages Can Ease California’s Housing Crisis,” CityLab
Use demand-based prices to manage parking on university campuses
Use campus parking revenue to finance university transit-pass programs
Use parking fines that increase with each successive offense to discourage repeat violators
Use a two-tier placard reform to end the abuse of disabled placards
Offer discounts at parking meters for residents, small cars and low-emissions vehicles
Devote meter revenue during holiday shopping to charity
Require solar panels above large parking lots
Zoning Reforms
Allow higher density on larger sites to encourage land assembly
- “Graduated Density Zoning to Encourage Land Assembly for Infill Redevelopment,” Zoning Practice
- “Graduated Density Zoning,” Journal of Planning Education and Research
- “How Zoning Can Ease Land Assembly,” Urban Land
- “How L.A. Can Gain Housing and Transit Ridership without Infuriating the Neighbors,” Los Angeles Times
Remove minimum parking requirements
Fiscal Reforms
Require property owners to repair broken sidewalks when they sell their property
Allow property owners to defer paying special assessments until a property is sold
- “Is Under-Investment in Public Infrastructure an Anomaly?”, Assessing the Impact of Public Policy
- “New Funds for Old Neighborhoods,” CPS Report
- “Financing Public Investment by Deferred Special Assessment,” National Tax Journal
- “Intervention through Property Taxation and Public Ownership,” Urban Land Policy, Issues and Opportunities
Return congestion toll revenue to the cities where it is collected
Use the revenue from on-street parking to finance local public services
- “Charging For Parking To Finance Public Services,” Journal of Planning Education and Research
- “Turning Small Change Into Big Changes,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Turning Small Changes into Big Changes, The High Cost of Free Parking
- “Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad,” The High Cost of Free Parking
- “Informal Parking on Sidewalks: The Broken Windows Effect,” California Policy Options 2014
- “Cashing in on Curb Parking,” ACCESS Magazine
- “The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue,” Regional Science and Urban Economics
- “The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue,” The High Cost of Free Parking