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Eugene Ends Parking Minimums
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San Diego Trolley Nation’s Most Popular Light Rail
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Greyhound Leaves Downtown Houston
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NYC Launches Daylighting Plan
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Newton Passes Upzoning to Comply With MBTA Communities Act
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Durham Eliminates Parking Requirements
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Audit Reveals Utah’s Housing Shortage
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Newton Passes Upzoning to Comply With MBTA Communities Act
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Alexandria Passes Zoning Reform
The city is one of a growing list to eliminate single-family zoning.
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As the housing affordability crisis spread from mainly coastal cities to the rest of the nation, cities and states are taking a serious look at outdated zoning codes that hamper efforts to build more housing.
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Another domino has fallen in the parking reform movement.
Audit Reveals Utah’s Housing Shortage
The state must build 28,000 housing units each year to keep up with a growing need.
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Donald Shoup has famously argued that minimum parking requirements cause congestion, air pollution, sprawl, poor urban design, and auto-dependence, among other consequences. Now Shoup teaches the central tenet of parking reform for Planetizen Courses.
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