PBOT’s newly hired parking enforcement squad is ‘coming for you’
PBOT expects the increased enforcement will improve compliance by 5% per year.
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A studio apartment in two parking spaces in Brooklyn (New York)
A creative take on a esoteric policy that is very relatable for New Yorkers.
Book Review: Paved Paradise – How Parking Explains the World
A page turner on parking policy and its more-interesting-than-you-might-think history.
PBOT’s already approved 40-cent parking meter increase in political pressure cooker
Mayor Wheeler would imperil PBOT’s budget if he puts parking meter increase on ice.
Two ways to weigh in on Portland parking
The Portland Bureau of Transportation and Central Eastside Industrial Council want your input on parking policy in the Boise and Central Eastside neighborhoods.
Reimagined curb zones in Amsterdam show Portland’s potential
If Portland planners come at their upcoming pilot project with similar fervor, I think we could see the same kind of results.
Portland transportation bureau will redesign new bikeways on NW Overton
Pushback on parking loss and lane changes has come from several unsurprising sources.
Starting next month, car parking in the Lloyd will cost more during big events
PBOT says this is to “encourage less driving and more use of public transit, biking, and other means of transportation.” There are many transit options people can use to travel to the Lloyd District and attend a Trail Blazers game at the Moda Center or an event at the Convention Center. The Lloyd is one of the … Read more
5 things that might happen now that Oregon just slashed parking mandates
This article is by Sightline’s Michael Andersen and Catie Gould. On Thursday, Oregon approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in modern US history. The unanimous vote by the state’s land use commission came through an unusual channel: an administrative action, ordered by the governor, that breathed new ambition into the broadly written land use … Read more
Why are parking mandates bad? YIMBYtown panelists count the ways
On days two and three of the YIMBYtown conference at Portland State University, parking and land-use experts from across the country shared insights on how our national overabundance of car parking leads to bad outcomes for people who specialize in all kinds of city planning topics. And based on the boisterous (and productive!) conversations that … Read more