Product No.: 08081B
Date Published: 01/2008
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Appendix A: Municipal Parking Standards Inventory is the separately published inventory of municipal parking standards for all 353 municipalities in the Delaware Valley region, part of the report, The Automobile at Rest: Towards Better Parking Policies in the Delaware Valley. Each of the region's municipalities set their own parking requirements within their municipal zoning ordinance, usually based on national standards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers and/or the Urban Land Institute. These standards often assume that all trips will be made by car and that destinations will be isolated and single-use in character. The standards fail to recognize the different types of parking provisions that may be desirable or cost-appropriate for different contexts such as downtowns, suburban shopping districts, or rural areas. Municipal parking ordinances therefore often result in too much parking or requirements that are not flexible for mixed-use settings. These requirements have a strong influence on the built and natural environment, and how the community grows or redevelops. The companion report presents an overview of parking policies in the Delaware Valley region, along with strategies for managing and designing parking better.Geographic Area Covered: DVRPC 9-county region
Key Words: parking standards, parking requirements, minimum parking, maximum parking, parking space dimensions, bicycle parking, paving, shared parking provisions, reserved parking, overlays, special districts.
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- Karin A. Morris, AICP (kmorris@dvrpc.org)
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