Attitudes About Parking Requirements: A Survey of Local Officials

This research seeks to understand local planners‟ attitudes and practices concerning parking requirements for workplaces. Parking requirements are receiving increasing attention as a crucial element of transportation and land use policy, and there are many critiques of excessive minimum parking requirements. Researchers and policy makers are advocating that cities rework their parking requirements to serve broader goals concerning transportation, land use, economic development, and sustainability. In 1995, a research team surveyed local jurisdictions in Southern California to understand the perspectives of the planners who create workplace parking requirements. This research replicates the original research design to identify current perceptions and to see if they have changed since 1995. This study was limited to workplace parking issues. The survey was conducted in spring 2013, inviting 169 jurisdictions across Southern California to participate, from which 50 completed surveys were received. Survey responses show that planners continue to see their role as ensuring an “adequate” number of parking spaces are provided, but indicate that determining the appropriate number of spaces is a significant issue. The most common request from developers is to reduce on-site parking supply. Use of precedent and national data sources continues to outpace local utilization surveys in setting requirements. Survey responses show planners‟ recognition of the role of parking pricing in parking utilization, but they strongly oppose deregulation of minimum parking requirements. Additional outreach efforts are needed to engage local planners in parking requirement reform, to better understand the technical, policy, and political issues affecting current requirements.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management. Alternate title: Attitudes About Parking Requirements: Survey of Local Officials.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Allahyar, Arianna
  • Willson, Richard
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Cities; Land use planning; Local government; Parking; Parking regulations; Surveys; Transportation policy; Workplaces
• Geographic Terms: Southern California
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516660
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2435
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2014 6:12PM