Since both housing and transportation issues have reached crisis proportions
in the Bay Area, it is crucial that we re-examine our basic assumptions about
parking requirements.
New research and previous studies indicate that:
- Parking is one of the most significant barriers in the housing
development process
- Minimum parking requirements typically do not reflect actual car
ownership rates
- Minimum parking requirements increase development costs,
typically by $20,000 to $30,000 per unit
- Minimum parking requirements reduce housing production and the
amenities which developers can provide residents
- Affordable housing developers are often required to build more
parking than the building residents need
This site and two publications (available here)
are 3 complimentary tools for the planners, developers, advocates, and
public officials to use in order to communicate the impact of minimum
parking requirements on the affordability and availability of housing and
improve planning and policy around residential parking. For more
background on this research, see About.
For a more detailed site outline, go to Contents,
otherwise, go straight to one of eight sections of this site:
Vehicle
Ownership and Trip Generation Data
Assessing and Communicating the
Costs of Parking
The
Housing Development Vehicle Ownership Model
"Unbundling" Parking and
Housing for Fairness, Efficiency, Units, and Savings
From Parking to Transportation, "Transportation Management
Plans"
Reasonable and Necessary
Policies for Smart Parking Planning
Case
Studies and Other Examples of Good Parking Planning and Policy
Other
Resources for Parking Planning & Policy
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