Leverage Parking for Community Benefits

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM CDT

Location: 122A

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Division Endorsement: Women and Planning Division

Speaker(s)

Margaret H. Wallace Brown, AICP

Director
City of Houston Planning & Development Department
Houston, Texas
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Emily Liu, FAICP

Planning Director
Louisville Metro Planning and Design Services
Louisville, Kentucky
Monique Johnson, AICP

Transportation & Mobility Innovation Manager
City of Sugar Land
Sugar Land, Texas

Moderator and Speaker(s)

Kate Zanon, AICP (she/her/hers)

General Manager of Community Development
CIty of Port Moody
Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

This presentation considers the following:
* Neither parking requirements nor their elimination should be one-size-fits-all.
* Requests to reduce parking need to address more than proximity to mass transit.
* How do community leaders obtain improvements that increase access for all community members?
* Does focusing solely on adjacency to transit improve or limit inclusion and equity?
* How can the value applied to traditional parking models be redirected to achieving other community goals?
* When requirements are reduced across the board, do communities lose negotiating power?

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Consider the equity issues associated with parking minimum regulations and the consequences of requiring that land be devoted to automobiles instead of people.
Identify creative ways of assessing parking-reduction initiatives to identify options that support community needs.
Assess innovative ideas for obtaining the best community benefits from parking reductions.