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Peer reviewed2013Downtown Los Angeles

Parking Requirements and Housing Development

Manville

Main finding

Removing parking requirements made adaptive reuse housing feasible in buildings where mandated parking would have been difficult or impossible.

Most important limitation

Downtown adaptive reuse is a specialized setting and project selection is nonrandom.

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Figure 1 · Downtown housing growth before and after adaptive reuse reform

Adaptive-reuse projects supplied thousands of homes after Los Angeles changed its rules.

REDRAWN FROM STUDY DATAFigure 1 · Downtown housing growth before and after adaptive reuse reform
Figure 1 · Downtown housing growth before and after adaptive reuse reformAdaptive-reuse projects supplied thousands of homes after Los Angeles changed its rules. Values digitized from Figure 1 in the archived publication; minor reading error is possible.04,0008,00012,00016,000Net new downtown homesPeriodNet new housing units1960s1970s1980s1990s1999–20082000s total

Source: Manville (2013), Figure 1; PDF p. 7.

Read carefully: This chart is descriptive, and downtown adaptive reuse is a specialized setting with simultaneous market changes.

How this study is used

Claims this evidence supports

Established evidenceFree parking is paid for through everything else.See the full evidence stack →

Policy connection

Solution guides informed by this study

03Let homeowners add a home04Stop forcing every home to buy parking

Reference

Manville (2013). “Parking Requirements and Housing Development.”

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