In Lieu of Required Parking
Some cities allow developers to pay a fee in lieu of providing the parking spaces required by zoning ordinances, and use this revenue to finance public parking spaces to replace the private parking spaces the developers would have provided. This paper presents a survey of in-lieu programs in 46 citi...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0739456x9901800403 2024-10-13T14:08:25+00:00 In Lieu of Required Parking Shoup, Donald C. 1999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9901800403 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X9901800403 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Planning Education and Research volume 18, issue 4, page 307-320 ISSN 0739-456X 1552-6577 journal-article 1999 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9901800403 2024-10-01T04:09:46Z Some cities allow developers to pay a fee in lieu of providing the parking spaces required by zoning ordinances, and use this revenue to finance public parking spaces to replace the private parking spaces the developers would have provided. This paper presents a survey of in-lieu programs in 46 cities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, and Iceland. These in-lieu programs reduce the cost of development, encourage shared parking, improve urban design, and support historic preservation. The in-lieu fees also reveal that the cost of complying with minimum parking requirements is more than four times the cost of the impact fees that cities levy for all other public purposes combined. The high cost of required parking suggests another promising in-lieu policy: allow developers to reduce parking demand rather than increase the parking supply. Examination of an Eco Pass program in California shows that reducing parking demand can cost far less than increasing the parking supply. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Canada Levy ENVELOPE(-66.567,-66.567,-66.320,-66.320) Journal of Planning Education and Research 18 4 307 320 |
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Some cities allow developers to pay a fee in lieu of providing the parking spaces required by zoning ordinances, and use this revenue to finance public parking spaces to replace the private parking spaces the developers would have provided. This paper presents a survey of in-lieu programs in 46 cities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, and Iceland. These in-lieu programs reduce the cost of development, encourage shared parking, improve urban design, and support historic preservation. The in-lieu fees also reveal that the cost of complying with minimum parking requirements is more than four times the cost of the impact fees that cities levy for all other public purposes combined. The high cost of required parking suggests another promising in-lieu policy: allow developers to reduce parking demand rather than increase the parking supply. Examination of an Eco Pass program in California shows that reducing parking demand can cost far less than increasing the parking supply. |
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