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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.
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.
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 ...
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In recognition of the many problems parking minimums cause, since 2017 many U.S. cities have overhauled or entirely repealed their parking minimum laws. [12] [13] The average number of parking spots per new residential unit increased from 0.8 in 1950 to a peak of 1.7 in 1998, and has since declined to 1.1 by 2022. [5]
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 ...
Officer Thomas Olsen, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, said the vehicle code only applies to “highways” — defined by Section 360 as publicly maintained roadways open to public use.
The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which, alongside uncodified acts, form the general statutory law of California. The official codes are maintained by the California Office of Legislative Counsel for the legislature.