The New OrleansFeb 12
Want more sustainable, walkable communities in Orléans? 🏙️ The latest article discusses why we should prioritize local shops over big box and parking lots to build a better, more connected neighbourhood.🛍️ #LocalBusiness #ParkingMinimums #BuildtheVillage

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Local Neighbourhoods Need More Shops and Less Parking - The New Orleans

The Convenience of Proximity Families in the suburbs of Ottawa have been sold a specific kind of convenience for the last several generations. It’s a picture that promises that as long as you have a car in your garage and a parking lot at your destination, the world is your oyster. But anyone who has […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2025

Break up the concrete! ⚒️ 🌳

Dallas is way too hot. The city says less pavement could help cool it down

"[Impervious surfaces] absorb 95% of the solar energy that hits them, raising the temperature around them. The goal is to encourage developers to incorporate more green space and trees, which cools things down on the ground."

https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-09-09/dallas-heat-islands-smart-surfaces-pavement-buildings

#Dallas #ClimateChange #UrbanHeatIslands #DylanDuke #SmartSurfaces #ParkingMinimums #KERANews #KERA

Dallas is way too hot. The city says less pavement could help cool it down

A new analysis found heavily urbanized areas of Dallas are 14 degrees hotter due to the heat island effect. Dallas planners say limiting the use of pavement could help combat the heat.

KERA
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Mar 30, 2025

Is it ironic that the session on parking minimums is the first one I’ve encountered that is standing room only? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

#NPC25 #ParkingMinimums #UrbanPlanning #StandingRoomOnly

AndresOct 25, 2024

Tonight is the deadline to submit testimony saying that parking minimums are stupid and unscientific even in more rural places, but they're ESPECIALLY stupid in fucking New York City. https://action.openplans.org/support-lifting-parking-mandates-for-housing-livability-and-climate/?eid=7277

#NYC #ParkingMinimums #BanCars #FuckCars

JesseSep 25, 2024

Councils (and residents) always seem to have this great fear that if they don't provide car parking then masses of motorists will just drive to places without any car parking available and then just illegally park on a regular basis.

It's a weird expectation that we don't tend to have for behaviour in other contexts.

Are there real examples of this happening in recent times outside of one off events?

#HousingCrisis #ReduceCarParking #ParkingMinimums

TroubleSep 4, 2024
Forward: ...a quote from Miguel Anxo, the mayor of Pontevedra, Spain, which has limited cars from their city center since 1999. Translated from Spanish, "As mayor, I have no obligation to find anyone a space to park their car. For me it's as if you buy a cow and ask me where you should put it or if you buy a freezer and you don't have a place in your house and tell me that you want a hole on the street where you can put it. The cars are the same." #biketooter #bikeadvocate #parkingminimums
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Aug 21, 2024

These climate activists are calling for parking reform in Dallas

While critics worry it could increase the number of cars parked on the street and make parking more difficult to find, proponents say the update to the decades-old parking ordinance would cut down on unused space and help the city grow economically.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-08-21/climate-activists-parking-reform-dallas-sunrise-movement

#Dallas #KERA #ParkingMinimums #ParkingReform #GreenSpaces #HeatIndex #UrbanHeatIsland #Texas #ClimateChange

These climate activists are calling for parking reform in Dallas

The Sunrise Movement Dallas has launched a campaign to eliminate parking minimums in the city.

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Urbanist ActivistJul 17, 2024

Heading to #GoldenValleyHealthClinic on Childs Ave in Merced in a few minutes to meet with a South Merced advocacy group. I was invited at the last city council meeting where I met someone aligned with my views after speaking to the council about the importance of abolishing #ParkingMinimums

One of the topics is going to be how the Merced Bus Service ( #MercedTheBus ) arranges its bus stops.

Turns out, it's a lot easier to network about this stuff when you turn up in person.

NYC GlueApr 15, 2024
Got Donald Shoup's "The High Cost of Free Parking" in Libby as an audiobook. A very depressing listen on the #UpperWestSide. We'd so benefit by smart meters but they will never happen because the money would go into a central fund and never benefit the local area. Must be happy with elimination of #ParkingMinimums. Do love the #groupthink analogies with doctors prescribing lead because that's what they all do.
#HighCostOfFreeParking
#MarketPricedParking
@richh has movedMar 28, 2024
#transit #transport bods. A while ago I saw a pair of aerial photos showing the same US city in the 1950s (or pre-war) and then in the 1990s(?). A bustling city of streets and businesses had been reduced to car park and about three buildings thanks to #parkingminimums and car-based enshittification. Might have been Phoenix, Atlanta or Dallas - twas a side/isometric view, not satellite/straight down. I can't for the life of me find it now. Anybody remember the one I'm looking for? Thanks!