Housing Supply Planning  |  Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements

This article supports the idea that minimum parking requirements are associated with lower residential densities and higher vehicle densities. It presents the results of a study of housing, population, and vehicle densities across the urbanized areas of New York and Los Angeles. It found that the provision of off-street parking in residential areas is closely associated with the stringency of minimum off-street parking requirements and that the provision of parking is positively correlated with vehicle density and negatively correlated with housing and population density.