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Conflict Resolution in Public Participation
International Cooperation, December 2023This guide details how and why the solution to major conflict is to emphasize effective public participation and transparency. -
Annex 2: Conflict Management Tools
2014by: Helen Baker, Matt SmithThis guide details out what are the underlying causes of conflict, what creates conflict, and the responsibility of stakeholders to address conflict. -
Legislative Study: Massachusetts Municipal Conflict Resolution Needs Assessment, Final Report
January 2016This report details what the current conflict management practices of Massachusetts municipalities are and how these both impact their communities, and how these can be improved. -
Conflict Management and Public Participation
January 2016by: Kate NelischerThis report details how conflict can arise in public participation and the methods planners can use to combat or utilize this. -
Fulton County, GA, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted October 2016The county’s comprehensive plan includes an Environmental Justice chapter. -
Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves
December 2019This report calculates benefit-cost-ratios (BCRs) for several hazard mitigation strategies. -
Homeward Bound: The Road to Affordable Housing
July 2019by: James Brooks, AICP, Michael Wallace, Gideon Berger, AICPThis guide provides recommendations for local and federal leaders to aid them in the national housing crisis. -
Housing Supply: A Growing Deficit
Economic & Housing Research Note, May 2021This briefing paper provides an updated estimate for the national housing supply shortage and reasons for the deficit. -
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes
March 2024This annual report provides estimates for affordable housing needs in the U.S. -
U.S. Housing Supply: Recent Trends and Policy Considerations
July 2023This report discusses trends in housing supply in relation to stock, vacancy rates, inventory, and construction metrics, and provides federal policy considerations. -
Changing Supply Elasticities and Regional Housing Booms
January 2020This report examines housing supply elasticity in the U.S. and its relation to the 1996-2006 boom and the 2012-2017 recovery period. -
Parking Code Guidance: Case Studies and Model Provisions
MTC Smart Growth Technical Assistance: Parking Reform Campaign, 2012by: Dyett & BhattiaThis guide presents a 10-point program for parking policy reform in the San Francisco Bay area. -
Reforming Parking Policies to Support Smart Growth
2007This guide discusses a range of parking management strategies to help cities and counties across the San Francisco Bay area explore parking policy reform alternatives. -
Parking Strategies to Support Livable Communities
April 2012This guide presents a four-step method to help cities and counties in metropolitan Chicago reform their parking policies. -
Sustainable Transportation Parking Toolkit
Updated 2013This guide discusses various parking management strategies to help municipalities in metropolitan Boston explore parking policy reform alternatives. -
Driving Urban Environments: Smart Growth Parking Best Practices
2002by: Robin ZimblerThis guide discusses many strategies to help municipalities in Massachusetts manage parking supply and demand. -
Fort Collins, CO, Transit-Oriented Development Parking Study
November 2014This study proposes parking policy reforms to address spillover effects from certain uses in a transit-oriented development district in Fort Collins, Colorado. -
Chapel Hill, NC, Proposed Minimum and Maximum Parking Requirements
November 2004by: Lsa AssociatesThis report analyzed existing conditions and proposed minimum and maximum off-street parking requirements for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. -
Santa Monica, CA, Parking Zoning Ordinance Update
Draft Report, January 2013This report analyzed existing conditions and proposed minimum off-street parking requirements for Santa Monica, California. -
Edmonton, AB, Zoning Bylaw Parking Study
March 2010by: Bunt & AssociatesThis study presents a comprehensive analysis of existing conditions and policy goals related to the provision of off-street parking in Edmonton, Alberta. -
U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview of Management Strategies
2010by: Rachel Weinberger, John Kaehny, Matthew Rufo, AICPThis report discusses a wide range of parking management strategies in use in communities across the U.S. -
Parking Requirement Impacts on Housing Affordability
September 2019by: Todd LitmanThis report belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, and Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements collections. -
Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook
TCRP Report 95, 3rd ed., 2013This report addresses off-street parking requirements and transit-oriented development. -
Searching for the Right Spot: Minimum Parking Requirements and Housing Affordability in New York City
Furman Center Policy Brief, March 2012by: Vicki Been, Caitlyn Brazill, Josiah MadarThis report analyzes the effects of minimum off-street parking requirements on housing affordability in New York City. -
Parking Best Practices: A Review of Zoning Regulations and Policies in Select US and International Cities
2011This report presents an in-depth comparison of parking management strategies in 11 large U.S. cities and London. -
Attitudes About Parking Requirements: A Survey of Local Officials
TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers, 2014by: Arianna Allahyar, Richard Willson, FAICPThis article discusses how planners in southern California view minimum parking requirements. -
Turning Housing into Driving: Parking Requirements and Density in Los Angeles and New York
Housing Policy Debate, 23(2): 350–375, 2013by: Michael Manville, Alex Beata, Donald Shoup, FAICPThis article supports the idea that minimum parking requirements are associated with lower residential densities and higher vehicle densities. -
Do Parking Requirements Significantly Increase the Area Dedicated to Parking? A Test of the Effect of Parking Requirements Values in Los Angeles County
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 46(6): 901–925, 2012by: W. Cutter, Sofia FrancoThis article supports the idea that minimum off-street parking requirements lead developers devote more space to parking than the market demands. -
Evaluating the Impact of Transit Service on Parking Demand and Requirements
Transportation Research Record, 2245: 56–62, 2011by: Daniel Rowe, Christine Bae, Qing ShenThis article supports the idea that access to transit service decreases the demand for off-street parking. -
Roughly Right or Precisely Wrong
Access, Spring 2002by: Donald Shoup, FAICPThis article provides a thoughtful explanation of the hazards of an overreliance on ITE’s Parking Generation report for parking requirements. -
Death by a Thousand Curb Cuts: Evidence on the Effect of Minimum Parking Requirements on the Choice to Drive
Transport Policy, 20: 93–102, 2011by: Rachel WeinbergerThis article suggests that minimum off-street residential parking requirements incentivize automobile trips. -
The Trouble with Minimum Parking Requirements
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 33: 549–574, 1999by: Donald Shoup, FAICPThis article explains the flaws in methods many communities use to set minimum off-street parking requirements. -
The High Cost of Free Parking
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17: 3–20, 1997by: Donald Shoup, FAICPThis article summarizes the individual and collective costs associated with minimum off-street parking requirements. -
Parking Management: Strategies for More Efficient Use of Parking Resources
TDM Encyclopedia Chapter 28, April 2017by: Todd LitmanThis guide discusses many strategies to help cities and counties manage parking supply and demand. -
Parking Reform Made Easy
Access, Fall 2013by: Richard Willson, FAICPThis article summarizes 12 steps cities and counties can take to establish reasonable minimum off-street parking requirements. -
Blacksburg, VA, Code of Ordinances
2017The town’s zoning code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Parking Spaces / Community Places: Finding the Balance Through Smart Growth Solutions
EPA 231-K-06-001, January 2006This guide discusses parking policy reforms that can help cities and counties meet smart growth goals. -
End Parking Minimums
2017This webpage provides links to several short blog posts about and an interactive map tracking parking reform in communities across the country. -
Pittsburgh, PA, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Green Building, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Scenic View Protection, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
San Diego, CA, Municipal Code
Updated February 2020This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Food Trucks, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Integrated Water Resource Management, Outdoor Lighting, Solar Energy, Urban Livestock, and Wildland-Urban Interface collections. -
Pinellas County, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2020This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
San Francisco, CA, Muncipal Code
Updated June 2022This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Biophilic Planning, Climate Change, Creative Placemaking, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, and Solar Energy collections. -
Portland, OR, City Code
Updated June 2022This regulation belongs to 18 Research KnowledgeBase collections. -
Philadelphia, PA, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2021This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Design Review, Housing Supply Planning, Solar Energy, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Carlsbad, CA, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019This regulation belongs to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Solar Energy collections. -
Iowa City, IA, City Code
Updated July 17, 2018This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Design Review, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Food Trucks, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Santa Fe County, NM, County Code
Updated July 13, 2018This regulation belongs to the Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Solar Energy collections. -
Anaheim, CA, Municipal Code
Updated March 2020This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, and Solar Energy collections. -
Minneapolis, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2021This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Built Environment and Health, Food Trucks, Green Building, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Shared Mobility, Social Equity, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Burlington, VT, PlanBTV
Adopted March 2019This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, and Solar Energy collections.