How Minimum Parking Requirements Trashed Accessibility of Cities
Channel: More Than Transit
Date: 2022-12-30

The second episode of the series on Accessibility to Commercial Areas is finally out. This time, I talked about the urban shops adjacent to the street that gives you more sense of inclusion and human scale compared to the desolate parking lots of suburban areas. We need more buildings like this in many cities across Canada! Sadly, minimum parking requirements and tons of other strict car-centric regulations had destroyed our cities and suburbs.

Special thanks to my friends Tamima Ahamed and Hermes Chung for the support! 

Song: "Lakey Inspired - Blue Boi [Lofi]" is under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro and Audience Participation
0:40 Urban Stores
1:10 The characteristics of urban stores and store-adjacent-to-street designs
2:07 "The monstrosity of city design" - Suburban Commercials
3:09 Why are suburban commercials filled with parking lots? From History to Present
3:52 About Minimum Parking Requirements
4:58 The preservation of urban core's design for buildings. Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs
5:20 Why is it important to preserve and promote this store-adjacent-to-street design? 
5:50 The negative consequences of parking lots
5:57 An emphasis on Why is it important to preserve and promote this store-adjacent-to-street design?
6:16 Some downsides of the store-adjacent-to-street concept
6:44 Some solutions to maintain this design
6:53 Conclusion

Sources and Attributions
"Mr. Woodnote Street Concert" by Very Quiet 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/35051723@N05/4341744608
 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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moviesPET 983 R 1 LA by A/V Geeks - Internet Archieve: https://archive.org/details/pet983r1la 
is licensed under CC0:
https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

Community Growth: Crisis and Challenge - Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Communit1959 
is licensed under CC0
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https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/it-s-time-for-canadian-cities-to-eliminate-minimum-parking-requirements 

https://www.parking-net.com/parking-news/skyline-parking-ag/minimum-parking-requirements#:~:text=Minimum%20parking%20requirements%20(MPR)%20are,generated%20by%20the%20buildings%27%20use 

NACTO - Urban Street Design Guide (I highly recommend purchasing the guide, either via e-book or hardcopy): https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/

Other resources to check out:
People Over Parking  - American Planning Association: https://www.planning.org/planning/2018/oct/peopleoverparking/
Reduced Parking Requirements - Local Housing Solutions: https://localhousingsolutions.org/housing-policy-library/reduced-parking-requirements/
Every City Should Abolish its Minimum Parking Requirements - Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/24/every-city-should-abolish-its-minimum-parking-requirements-has-yours
"Walkable City: How Downtown can save America, one step at a time" by Jeff Speck
"The high cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup
"Happy City" by Charles Montgomery
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs
"Strap Hanger: Saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile" by Taras Grescoe
"The High Cost of Free Parking" - Donald Shoup


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