Auto-oriented, neutral, and transit-oriented parking policy
Transportation planner Patrick Siegman lays out three approaches to parking regulations in an attempt to move municipalities away from parking minimums.
Editor's note: This article is a sidebar to the "Parking reform gathers speed, especially in the West" article.
Most municipalities have codes with minimum off-street parking requirements. Many of these are also interested in sustainability and transit-oriented development — but they don’t know how to achieve these goals through their parking policies, according to transportation planner Patrick Siegman of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates in San Francisco, California.
The technique Siegman has used is to present three alternative approaches, he told New Urban News:
1. Auto-oriented planning: Minimum parking requirements are employed to make the city more auto-oriented than it would be if the matter was left up to the free market.
2. Neutral (a.k.a. laissez-faire) codes: Neither minimum nor maximum parking requirements are instituted.
3. Transit-oriented planning: No minimum parking requirements are used, but planners may use maximum parking requirements to help increase the market price of parking (reducing vehicle trips), and curb parking is carefully managed — using pricing and neighborhood parking benefit districts — to prevent curb parking shortages. Transit-oriented codes also frequently require the unbundling of parking costs from the cost of other goods and services, require the provision of free transit passes to building
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