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Parking Reform Network
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An org with a mission to educate the public about the impact of parking policy on housing, climate, equity, and traffic. https://parkingreform.org/
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Dec 5
Don't say "Parking Requirements"
Instead use "Costly Parking Mandates"

The language we use evokes emotion and mental shortcuts; we like to create coherent stories. Framing the story of parking reform in a compelling way will help us succeed. 🧵/7
Framing The Story of Parking Reform The language we use evokes emotion and mental short cuts; we like to create coherent stories. Framing the story of parking reform in a compelling way will help us succeed. Don't Say: Parking Requirements The word “requirements” indicates something is required, implicitly that it is needed. It is also value-neutral. Instead Use: Costly Parking Mandates Remind people parking costs money and land to provide. And use the term “mandates” which implies a heavier hand. Parking Reform Network - parkingreform.org This work draws on Evan Manvel’s work for the Transportation and Growth Management program at the State of Oregon
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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 6d
I'm excited to talk about why kids can't get themselves to school anymore with Natasha Riveron and THE @coachbalto.bsky.social!

You can join our @parkingreform.org discussion on Zoom on Monday at 3:00 eastern: luma.com/85bkwa2l
How School Transportation Broke (And How to Fix It) · Zoom · Luma
The U.S. has witnessed a long, steep decline in the share of kids who walk or ride a bike to school. And today even school bus systems increasingly face…
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 7d
🎉 Congratz Zurich! Paris has also taken a similar measure. I wonder when/if an American city will take a similar approach.
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On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 7d
Share your story if you are participating in the #weekwithoutdriving !
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 8d
Also thanks @transit.app @bikeleague.org, Lyft, @parkingreform.org @islandpress.bsky.social @sierraclub.org for in kind donations to our #weekwithoutdriving
survey raffle.

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Will you participate in Week Without Driving this year? Make a social media video and inspire others. Here's an example of how you can tell your story! ...
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 8d
Parking doesn't just ruin cities, it ruins video games, too!

You've heard the story - Sim City's creators wanted to model real cities but "there were way to many parking lots in the real world and [the] game was going to be really boring."

Join us Saturday to hear from a Sim City designer!
Simulating the Future: a webinar with Stone Librande · Zoom · Luma
In 2013, the SimCity team began working on an expansion pack for the game, called "Cities of Tomorrow". To do this, they needed to make predictions about…
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Complete Streets Bellevue @completestreetsbellevue.org · 19d
Things are set up and we're getting started! Come check out what community orgs have put together to spark joy, art, fun, and community!

Bellevue's first-ever #ParkingDay is underway!
A kids corner with a rug, kid chairs, blocks, an easel, and coloring pages occupy a parking space alongside some plants. A couple of metal chairs are arranged around flowers atop astroturf. A games corner, with Connect 4, lawn bowling, chess, and mancala A bench surrounded by flowers with a man setting up an installation in the background.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 19d
There is a corkboard outside my office and I have just started decorating it, but you can see where my priorities are 😏

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Two stickers on a cork board, one from The War on Cars podcast with black font on yellow like a traffic sign, and one with Donald Shoup pointing and saying, a la the old Uncle Sam posters, "I want YOU to join the Parking Reform Network" Three stickers on a corkboard: one says freeway fighters network, one says Know the West and High Country News, and the third is a rainbow infinity sign with the text "we can't all be neurotypical, Karen" from rainbowmamadesigns on Etsy
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 19d
Parking Day is here!
Today, communities around the world are transforming parking spaces into places for people, joy, and connection. 💛

📍 Find an installation near you: myparkingday.org

📸 Share your parklet, tag us @parkingreform, and join the global movement.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 20d
There's definitely been some improvements since then, but even today, more than a quarter of Houston's downtown core is still just parking!
Map of downtown Houston with a red overlay showing areas with parking. The headline reads "Parking: 26% of central city".
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 22d
Single-stair buildings can also easily fit on smaller, oddly shaped land parcels, making them an ideal typology for infill development, especially for those smaller parking lots 😎
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · Mar 31
An updated thread of diagrams,
comparing Single Egress Stair (SES) buildings
to Double-Loaded buildings (with two stairs and a hallway).

aka why SES buildings are better, and - in many aspects - safer than double loaded buildings.
Two diagrams showing a single stair 5 storey building, and a 2 stair 5 storey building, with the stair cores and hallways highlighted in yellow.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 29d
✨ Join us today at 4:30 pm PT with Lo Sontag as we dive into how free parking acts as a regressive subsidy that reinforces systemic inequities.

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Free Parking as Elite Capture: A Feminist Urbanism Critique of Public Space · Zoom · Luma
Join us with Lo Sontag, as we examine how free parking, framed as a public good in reality represents a regressive subsidy that privileges car…
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · Sep 3
It’s been one of the great honors of my life to witness, report, and advise on this historic restoration of property rights that makes it legal to build cute main streets again.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 29
🎉 It’s with great pleasure that we’re now announcing the recipients of the 2025 Donald Shoup Awards!

Congratulations to the Austin Parking Reform Coalition, @citizen-cate.bsky.social, and @stephvigil.bsky.social !!

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The 2025 Donald Shoup Award Recipients! - Parking Reform Network
These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding leadership in transforming parking policies to build a more vibrant and sustainable future.
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · Sep 2
✅ be officemates with the first Donald Shoup Award winner

I have such joy and gratitude for @citizen-cate.bsky.social's work telling the stories that have helped Oregon, Anchorage, Montana, & Washington change the way their cities can be built for decades to come.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 29
🎉 It’s with great pleasure that we’re now announcing the recipients of the 2025 Donald Shoup Awards!

Congratulations to the Austin Parking Reform Coalition, @citizen-cate.bsky.social, and @stephvigil.bsky.social !!

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The 2025 Donald Shoup Award Recipients! - Parking Reform Network
These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding leadership in transforming parking policies to build a more vibrant and sustainable future.
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Adam Greenfield @adamgreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 2
The Austin Parking Reform Coalition is the winner of the first ever Donald Shoup Organization Award!

We led on Austin eliminating parking mandates in 2023. Now we're back pushing for more reform (update soon.)

So proud to be part of this amazing group! Thanks to @parkingreform.org for this honor.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Sep 4
Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social from Connecticut Parking Reform shares how Bridgeport, CT, defeated a push to bring back parking mandates by a razor-thin 5-4 vote!

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How Bridgeport Protected Its Parking Reforms - Parking Reform Network
Bridgeport saved parking reform by just one vote, defeating a push to bring back costly mandates. See how advocates organized this crucial win.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 29
🎉 It’s with great pleasure that we’re now announcing the recipients of the 2025 Donald Shoup Awards!

Congratulations to the Austin Parking Reform Coalition, @citizen-cate.bsky.social, and @stephvigil.bsky.social !!

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The 2025 Donald Shoup Award Recipients! - Parking Reform Network
These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding leadership in transforming parking policies to build a more vibrant and sustainable future.
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Max Nardo @maxnardoco.bsky.social · Aug 29
New post about how bulk transit passes are incredibly affordable and pair nicely with new parking reform and TOD laws.

New tools in SB25-161 expand this program - let's use them!

Written with James Flattum from @greatdentransit.bsky.social
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Greater Denver Transit @greatdentransit.bsky.social · Aug 29
Great article by Max Nardo & our very own James Flattum about the opportunities eliminating parking minimums pared with increased Neighborhood EcoPass update could provide for incurring @RideRTD ridership.

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Untapped Potential of RTD’s Neighborhood EcoPass
A low-cost policy to speed Colorado’s shift to sustainable, affordable communities | Housing Forward Colorado, a project of SWEEP
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 28
🎉 Congrats to the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest (27,478) for fully abolishing their parking mandates!

You love to see it 😎
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Steven @stevevance.net · Aug 27
the City of Oak Forest city council repealed parking mandates citywide last night

it looks like a clean repeal, cc: @parkingreform.org
screenshot of part of ordinance 2025-08-1108O showing off-street parking requirements struck through
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 27
An excellent guide! sightline.org/2025/05/28/h...
How to Talk About Parking Reform—and Win | Sightline Institute
A road-tested parking messaging guide, to gain more great neighborhoods and the homes we need, and to kick costly empty asphalt to the curb.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 27
​Join us tomorrow at 3 pm EDT for a webinar with Anna Fahey from @sightline.org on the power of strategic messaging in parking reform!

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Strategic Messaging for Parking Reform · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a webinar with Anna Fahey from Sightline Institute on the power of strategic messaging in parking reform. Anna will share winning narratives and…
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · Aug 25
More road-tested tips from @trufahey.bsky.social via @parkingreform.org this Thurs!
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · Aug 22
Excited to have a post over at the @parkingreform.org blog about how Bridgeport (barely) protected its parking reforms.

@urbandispatch.bsky.social and I played a small role along with *so many* other passionate people who came out to protect progress in the city.
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How Bridgeport Protected Its Parking Reforms - Parking Reform Network
Bridgeport saved parking reform by just one vote, defeating a push to bring back costly mandates. See how advocates organized this crucial win.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 20
I wonder if Shoup mentioned getting lost in a parking lot in 'The High Cost of Free Parking' 😂
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Aug 20
got lost in the king arthur flour store parking lot because i couldn't figure out which subaru was ours
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 14
Can't wait to see what @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social will say about this new traffic calming method 😂
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · Aug 14
A rock in a parking lot median in Aurora, Colorado is jumping out in front of cars, trucks, even an ambulance. Who will stop this menace?
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · Aug 13
🎉 Shoreline, WA abolishes parking mandates city-wide!!!

Expect a new red dot to show up on our Mandates Map very soon! parkingreform.org/resources/ma...
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · Aug 13
NEW // Shoreline Makes Good on Pledge to Stop Mandating Car Parking Citywide www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/13/s...
Shoreline Makes Good on Pledge to Stop Mandating Car Parking Citywide » The Urbanist
# Shoreline becomes the largest city in King County to let builders decide how much parking makes sense within the specifics of a site, rather than requiring an arbitrary number. The 6-0 city council ...
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South Bay Forward @southbayforward.bsky.social · Aug 10
Good news in Redondo Beach: this week the city council heard an update on the Artesia & Aviation revitalization plans.

After hearing from staff how the city’s parking requirements would make redevelopment infeasible, council decided to move forward to eliminate parking requirements on the corridor!
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