photo of a mostly empty parking lot

Photo by John Matychuk

The Bay Area Parking Census

How much parking the region has, why it’s too much and what to do about it

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For decades, parking in the Bay Area has been both ubiquitous and uncounted. Although no one has measured how much parking the region has — or how much it really needs — policy makers continue to require almost every new development to provide parking spaces, accumulating an ever-larger supply.

Now ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅand the Mineta Transportation Institute () have produced the San Francisco Bay Area Parking Census, the most de