The High Cost of Minimum Parking Requirements

The High Cost of Minimum Parking Requirements

This chapter estimates how minimum parking requirements increase the cost of constructing housing, office buildings, and shopping centers. It also explains proposed legislation to limit how much parking cities can require in transit-rich districts.

Key findings

Parking requirements increase the cost of a shopping center by up to 93% if the parking is underground.

Parking requirements on a construction site in Los Angeles can reduce the number of units produced by 13%.

Planning methods have changed cities to favor cars.

View
View PDF
Behind a hard paywall (paid accounts only)
Behind a soft paywall (limited views allowed until a paid account is required)

Topics

Tags

Technologies

No items found.

Locations

No items found.

See something that should be here that isn't? Have a suggestion to make?

Please let us know