No Parking? No Problem. Now Let's Build for People Too

Bike advocates support HB 369, but real reform requires more than just removing mandates. It requires building for safety and choice.

NC could end the 20th century practice of assigning parking to new developments via mandate. Last week, Jenn Truman wrote about why NC should end parking mandates to build better cities. This past Tuesday, that crucial draft state legislation, HB 369 was discussed in a key committee and continues to move forward at the statehouse. At CITYBUILDER, we’re excited about that but also know it takes more local work too.

Read about what’s needed in this guest post by Kuanyu Chen of Oaks and Spokes.

Brand new parking built and not once used for a light industrial renovated warehouse near downtown Durham. Photo by Charlotte Chapman.

"If you build it, they will come."

This Simplified definition of the concept known as "Induced Demand" is often applied across economies, commerce, housing, and transportation. That’s exactly what cities do today with parking.

If we bui…