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Global benchmark: how cities and states are dropping parking minimums

Benchmark note · 14 Nov 2026 · WA Foundation research desk

From Buffalo to Mexico City to London, a fast-growing list of places has stopped forcing new buildings to include a fixed number of car spaces. Indian building rules still do.

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London's 2004 parking reform: what happened when minimums were scrapped

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Mexico City: from parking minimums to maximums, and meters that pay for footpaths

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Zurich's parking cap: three decades of a fixed number of city-centre spaces

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Research, policy briefs and news

Global benchmark: how cities and states are dropping parking minimums

London's 2004 parking reform: what happened when minimums were scrapped

Mexico City: from parking minimums to maximums, and meters that pay for footpaths

Zurich's parking cap: three decades of a fixed number of city-centre spaces

Publication · International

Japan's proof-of-parking rule: no space, no car

Singapore's vehicle quota: managing car numbers before managing parking

Demand-based pricing: what San Francisco's SFpark set out to do

Does 30% of city traffic really come from cars looking for parking?

Cars are parked about 95% of the time. What that means for city land

How much land does parking take? What Los Angeles measured, and India has not

The real cost of a parking space: 2026 global benchmarks

Bundled parking: when every flat buyer pays for a car space

Parking cash-out: paying employees not to park

Parking benefit districts: when the street keeps its own parking money

Amsterdam: removing street parking one permit at a time

Paris: from 70,000 fewer parking spaces to a vote for 500 car-free streets

Oslo's car-light centre: replacing 700 parking spaces instead of banning cars

New York's congestion pricing after one year: lessons for parking pricing