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To fight climate change and the California's housing affordability crisis, Gov. Newsom signed a bill that will bar cities from setting minimum parking requirements near transit stops.
The law was drafted by Laura Friedman, and emanated from portions of California Senate Bill 50, an unsuccessful 2019 bill which would have both prohibited parking mandates within 0.5 miles of a major transit stop as well as mandated minimum four-plex residential zoning in the same locations.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill into law that frees developers of strict parking requirements near public transit. ‘Unwinding really backward policy:’ California abolishes decades ...
Parking mandates or parking requirements are policy decisions, usually taken by municipal governments, which require new developments to provide a particular number of parking spaces. Parking minimums were first enacted in 1950s America during the post-war construction boom with the intention of preventing street parking from becoming overcrowded.
The bill would have also eliminated minimum requirements for parking and prohibited local design requirements that would lower the amount of space in a new development. [14] The bill would have affected roughly 50 percent of single-family homes in Los Angeles and 96 percent of land in San Francisco. [15] [16]
In an effort to lower the cost of construction and cut down on car dependence, California has recently adopted a law that prohibits local governments from setting minimum parking requirements for ...
California Senate Bill 1534 (SB 1534, Government Code section 65852.2) is a 1982 California statute law which established statewide options for local governments to promote and regulate secondary suites, also known as "accessory dwelling units" (ADUs) in California. Under the law, local governments were allowed the following options:
While most parking lots are considered private property, Olsen said there can be a sign — typically located at the entrance of the parking lot — indicating if the vehicle code is enforced there.