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
Surface parking in downtown San Jose, California.Sergio Ruiz, SPUR/Flickr, CC BYFor 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.
In 2017 Buffalo, New York,...