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Parking reform could reenergize downtowns – here's what happened when Buffalo changed its zoning rules

  • Written by Daniel Baldwin Hess, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
Parking reform could reenergize downtowns – here's what happened when Buffalo changed its zoning rulesSurface parking in downtown San Jose, California.Sergio Ruiz, SPUR/Flickr, CC BY

For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car.

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