Equity – Parking Reform Network

Parking Mandates, Equity, & Accessibility

Etienne Lefebvre — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:43:40 +0000

Freeing up valuable space in our cities by reducing car-dependency can provide immense opportunities to intentionally design our cities around the needs of people with disabilities. Allowing people with disabilities to not only have independent mobility but also experience what it's like to live in a city that directly prioritizes them rather than cars. When cities are designed around people instead of machines we get to enjoy an urban typology that encourages greater social connectedness, greater accessibility, greater equity and greater proximity to services and to each other.

Parking reform, aging, and disability roundtable

Taylor Griggs — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:57:29 +0000

For people who advocate for parking policy reform (or transportation reform more broadly), the question comes up a lot: if you want to take away parking spots, doesn’t that exclude people with disabilities or mobility issues who rely on those spaces? This topic is complex, but luckily there are people on the case to sift through the discourse. At a recent Parking Reform Network…

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Portland equitable mobility plan: Tax parking lots, require equal commute benefits

Tony Jordan — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:06:52 +0000

After meeting for eighteen months, Portland, Oregon’s Pricing Options for Equitable Mobility (POEM) Task Force issued it’s final recommendations which include: flexible commuter benefits (parking cash-out), increased on-street parking metering and permitting, development of a fee on privately-owned off-street parking lots, and accelerated implementation of the city’s existing performance-based…

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Fairness and Equity in Parking Reform- Part 3

Lindsay Bayley — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:51:32 +0000

In previous posts, we talked about why adding parking doesn’t solve the “parking problem,” and why we need to use pricing to get turnover and create parking availability to actually solve the “parking problem.” One challenge commonly brought up when meters are proposed is the issue of fairness and equity. “Won’t new meters hurt poor folks?” It makes sense to keep costs down as much as possible…

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Parking Requirements Gave Me a Haircut

Neil Heller — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:39:11 +0000

By Neil Heller with Cary Westerbeck Neil is an urban planner at Neighborhood Workshop in Portland, Oregon and faculty of the Incremental Development Alliance. Currently sporting an 80-day shelter-in-place mullet. Cary is an architect and small-scale developer at Westerbeck Architecture in Bothell, Washington currently taking development haircuts. I caught up with Inc Dev…

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