Parking Modernization

Parking dynamics in our cities are in flux with the revolutionary changes underway in how people live, work, and get around. The “telework transformation,” Uber and Lyft, “Amazonization,” the COVID-19 bike boom, scooters, and GREENbike are some of the words we use now that were largely not around just a decade ago. To stay up with the times, communities and developers need to re-assess approaches to parking in order to better fit these new conditions. In other words, we all need to modernize our parking.

A partnership Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), the Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG), Salt Lake County, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), and the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and communities along the Wasatch Front partnered to launch the Utah Parking Modernization Initiative.

The Utah Parking Modernization Initiative starts with a re-assessment of parking data and strategies to help communities in Utah:

Catch up on new trends that affect parking and mobility.

Identify ways to make parking more efficient.

Modernize their approach to managing parking consistent with their own unique goals for the future.

Think through how to address varying contexts. Each community has varying and distinct parking needs and issues. Recognizing how context affects parking is key.

Guidebook Elements

Parking Modernization Guidebook

Parking Modernization Tool

For additional information regarding the Parking Modernization Study, please contact Julie Bjornstad.

Parking 2.0 Webinar

The Parking 2.0 – Using Modern Parking Approaches to Maximize Community Benefits webinar recording is now available!

The webinar outlined the consequences of both too much and too little parking – like impacts on city revenue per acre or housing affordability – and touched on one community’s reaction to trying new parking approaches by looking at Clearfield’s experience.