Parking space requirements, car versus moped, Harmon's Supermarket Brickyard, Salt Lake City

 

Also see:

-- "Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework," 2018

There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar ("Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar," New York Times).  

But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005.

Seattle eliminated parking minimums in its Downtown in the late 1980s, and extended this concept to transit station areas and neighborhood commercial districts around 2006.

DC's historic districts have an exception to parking minimums.

I have come to understand why this is so difficult.  The reality is that most communities are so automobile dependent that every new development generates lots of car trips.  Most trips aren't capturable by sustainable modes.

By contrast in a city like DC with a transit system, multiunit buildings near transit stations generate 25% or fewer trips by car.