Parking Reforms
Charge demand-based prices for on-street parking to create one or two open spaces on every block
- The High Cost of Free Parking, American Planning Association
- The High Cost of Free Parking, searchable manuscript
- “Gone Parkin’,” The New York Times
- “The Goldilocks Principle of Curb Parking Prices,” Transfers
- “Pricing Curb Parking,” Transportation Research Part A
- “Pricing the Curb,” Parking & Mobility
- “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
- How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking? Transfers, Fall 2019.
- “Cruising for Parking,” Parking and the City, 2018
- “Free Parking or Free Markets,” Parking and the City, 2018
- “SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand,” Parking and the City, 2018
- “How to Improve San Francisco, One Parking Space at a Time,” San Francisco Chronicle
Charge demand-based prices for off-street parking to optimize occupancy
Establish Parking Benefit Districts that use the revenue from on-street parking to finance public services on the metered streets
- “Parking Benefit Districts,” Journal of Planning Education and Research
- “Nine Cities’ Ordinances for Parking Benefit Districts.”
- “The Parking Reform That Could Transform Manhattan,” CityLab
- “How to Improve San Francisco, One Parking Space at a Time, San Francisco Chronicle
- Pricing the Curb, Parking & Mobility
- “Residential Parking Benefit Districts,” Parking and the City
- “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
- “Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions,” The Informal City
- “Residential Parking Benefit Districts,” Parking and the City
- “Parking Matters in Old Pasadena,” Parking and the City
- “Parking Benefit Districts in Beijing,” Parking and the City
Remove minimum parking requirements
- “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements,” Zoning Practice
- “Introduction” to Parking and the City
- “Parking Reform Will Save the City,” CityLab
- “The Perils of Central Planning for Parking,” Planetizen
- “Unnatural Selection,” The High Cost of Free Parking
- “The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking,” The High Cost of Free Parking
- “The Trouble With Minimum Parking Requirements,” Transportation Research Part A
- “Quantity Versus Quality in Off-Street Parking Requirements,” Journal of the American Planning Association
- “The Unequal Burden of Parking Requirements,” Parking and the City
- “Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements,” Parking and the City”
- “The High Cost of 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
- “Instead of Free Parking,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Free Parking or Free Markets,” ACCESS Magazine
- “Problems with Parking Requirements in Zoning Ordinances,” Traffic Quarterly
- “The Parking Reformation,” Parking Review
- Answers to 12 Questions about AB 1401, Planetizen, June 15, 2021.
Offer commuters the option to cash out their employer-paid parking subsidies
- “Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking,” Transfers
- Parking Cash Out, American Planning Association
- Executive Summary, Parking Cash Out
- “The Power of Getting Paid Not to Park at Work,” CityLab.
- “Parking Cash Out,” Los Angeles Times
- “Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking,” Parking and the City
- “The Scourge of Free Parking,” Los Angeles Times
- “Congress Okays Cash Out,” ACCESS Magazine
- “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
- “Equity in Financing the California Transportation Plan,” California Department of Transportation.
Convert garages into apartments
Use demand-based prices to manage parking on university campuses
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
Remove minimum parking requirements
Fiscal Reforms
Require property owners to repair broken sidewalks and plant street trees before they sell their property
Allow property owners to defer paying special assessments until a property is sold
Return congestion toll revenue to the cities where it is collected
Use the revenue from on-street parking to finance local public services