Will Portland Finally Accelerate the Pace of Parking Reform?
Takeaways Portland has yet to follow years-old council orders to change its parking rules Neighborhoods that struggle with parking agree: the current process for permits rarely works. While Portland paused ...
Author: Catie Gould
Oregon Just Ended Excessive Parking Mandates On Most Urban Lots
The movement to prioritize housing for people over storage for cars has reached a new high point in the Pacific Northwest. In the first action of this kind by any ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Great News: Portland’s Next Rail Line May Have Fewer Parking Garages
The people planning the Portland area’s next light-rail line seem to be steering away from a scenario where taxpayers waste $100 million of precious public-transit funding on a series of ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Seattle’s Democracy Vouchers: Already sparking a lively election season
Seattleites are flooding a small office in the Seattle Municipal Tower with stacks of mail. In the last eight weeks, city residents have sent more than 43,000 democracy vouchers to ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Believe It or Not, Trump Put a Huge Tax on Parking Lots, Maybe by Mistake
Deep in the bowels of the Republican tax reform that took effect in the United States last year, its late-night authors buried a secret. The bill, as written, made one ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
ADU Parking Quotas Are Climate Killers
On a planet facing a climate crisis, in a country where cars are the single largest source of climate pollution, mandating more parking spaces is foolish, at best, and may ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
2018 Was the Year Parking Reform Went from Minor to Major League
Almost every good idea, from sandwiches to light bulbs to bike lanes, follows a similar upward-twisting curve of rising popularity. First, in a trickle, comes its introduction by a few ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Portland Might Spend Twice as Much on Free Parking Lots as Affordable Housing along Its Next Rail Line
The big, hard-fought housing ballot issue that Portland-area voters approved this month set aside 10 percent of its revenue—$65 million—specifically for low-income-affordable housing near transit lines. But as the same ...
