The high cost of free parking is almost, but not quite, common knowledge. Many, but not all, people realize the pernicious effects of parking requirements. A map can help illustrate this spreading awareness.
Strong Towns has begun a crowdsourced effort to map the communities around the country taking steps to curtail the proliferation of parking, as mandated by zoning codes and other land use regulations. According to the post, "Successful removals of these harmful laws give us hope that the movement is growing."
The map groups cities leading the fight against parking requirements in three categories:
- Green pins = parking minimums completely eliminated in at least one area of the city.
- Blue pins = parking minimums lowered or removed for certain uses.
- Orange pins = currently discussing their parking minimum laws.
The team at Strong Towns also invites people to fill out a form to add more points to the map if they've missed any place so far.
FULL STORY: A MAP OF CITIES THAT GOT RID OF PARKING MINIMUMS
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