How Free Parking Destroys Urban Wealth

Decades of minimum parking requirements has resulted in cities across this country having far more parking than they will ever fully utilize. This results in there being fewer spaces designed for people and it worsens the infrastructure overall.

Sources:

The High Cost of Free Parking:
The high cost of free parking

Houston's Minimum Parking Requirements:
https://library.municode.com/tx/houst...

Black Friday Shopping Trends:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/27/black...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/29/shopp...

Local Business Perception vs. Mobility Behavior of Shoppers: A Survey from Berlin:
https://findingspress.org/article/244...

The Strongest Case Yet That Excessive Parking Causes More Driving:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Strong Towns 101: Walmart or Smallmart
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

Parking Has Eaten American Cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Quantified Parking Comprehensive Parking Inventories for Five U.S. Cities (download archived by the wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/202203311...

Reno Experience District info:
https://redreno.com/about/
https://mynews4.com/news/local/develo...
https://mynews4.com/news/local/reno-d...

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