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FAQ: Small Towns Eliminating Parking Minimums and Their Benefits
TL;DR
Haltom City businesses can gain a competitive edge by eliminating parking mandates, attracting small businesses to vacant properties and boosting local economic development.
Haltom City's parking reform involves converting minimum parking requirements to recommendations, allowing property redevelopment without meeting outdated space mandates that currently hinder business growth.
Removing parking mandates in Haltom City creates jobs, revitalizes neighborhoods, and builds a more vibrant community by repurposing vacant spaces for productive use.
Small cities like Port Townsend and Charlottesville successfully eliminated parking minimums before Haltom City, showing how historical automobile-focused planning created today's excessive parking requirements.
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The content discusses how small towns in the United States are eliminating parking minimums and experiencing positive economic and community benefits, similar to larger cities that have implemented these reforms.
Parking minimums are being eliminated because research and community input indicate towns are using too many parking spaces that could be put to better use, and removing these mandates helps bring small businesses back to commercial areas.
Towns implement parking reform by changing city codes to convert minimum parking requirements to minimum parking recommendations or passing comprehensive zoning codes that eliminate parking requirements entirely.
Port Townsend, Washington (population just over 10,000) and Charlottesville, Virginia (population 47,000) are mentioned as examples of small towns that have successfully eliminated parking mandates.
Port Townsend eliminated parking mandates in 2024, while Charlottesville passed their comprehensive zoning code eliminating parking requirements in late 2023.
Benefits include bringing small businesses back to commercial corridors, rejuvenating areas aesthetically, providing much-needed jobs for residents, and using land more efficiently by repurposing underutilized parking spaces.
Joe Palmer, communications director for Haltom United Business Alliance, is advocating for parking reform in Haltom City, Texas.
According to the Parking Reform Network's mandates map, for every large U.S. city that has removed parking minimums, there are two smaller towns that have successfully done the same.
The historical context shows that American cities transformed from walking-focused communities in the late 1800s to automobile-dominated landscapes by the mid-20th century, when individual car ownership became the norm and streets became predominantly vehicle-focused.
People should know that parking reform isn't just for big cities—small towns can also reap significant benefits from eliminating parking mandates, including economic revitalization and improved community aesthetics.
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