| Tool | Issues Addressed | Considerations | Examples |
| Flexible Parking Standards Revising land development regulations to remove rigid parking requirements that typically result in an oversupply of unnecessary parking spaces. Revisions may include reducing the number of required parking spaces, or allowing shared parking between adjacent facilities. |
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Guides For Implementing This Tool
Georgia Quality Growth Partnership
The Flexible Parking Standards tool includes step-by-step guides for implementation, considerations about costs, administrative requirements, and example ordinances or similar materials that may be used for putting approaches into practice.
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/intra_nonpub/Toolkit/Guides/FlexPkngStnds.pdf
TDM Encyclopedia, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
This guide includes a variety of strategies that encourage more efficient use of existing parking facilities, improve the quality of service provided to parking facility users and improve parking facility design. It discusses various parking and mobility management strategies, such as shared parking, regulations that encourage more efficient parking facility use, priced parking and parking cash out, overflow parking plans to deal with occasional peaks, transit and rideshare improvements, and TDM strategies that affect parking demand.
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/OITDSShared/asp/NavDisclaimer.asp?Leaving=GQGP&GoToURL=http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm28.htm
U.S. Department Of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration
This guide identifies the management of parking supply as an important strategy for discouraging solo driving and encouraging use of ridesharing, transit, cycling and walking. It examines six parking supply strategies – preferential parking for car and vanpool patrons, reduced minimum requirements in parking codes, maximum parking requirements in parking codes, caps on the overall supply of parking, timed curb parking and peripheral parking combined with shuttles.
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/OITDSShared/asp/NavDisclaimer.asp?Leaving=GQGP&GoToURL=http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/planning/tdmstatus/FTAPRKSP.HTM
Model Ordinances
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No records available.Georgia Implementation Examples
Forsyth County, GA - Forsyth County has created a United Development Code. The code represents a comprehensive revision of the county's zoning and subdivision regulations to address growth and development issues. Some of the plans in the code include: conservation and subdivision design provision for mixed use development in commercial categories, parking minimums and maximums, newly added shopping district, urban, commercial and industrial corridors to enhance the visual qualities of development protection and conservation of the County's natural features and historic resources.
Multi County, GA - Flexcar is an hourly rental car service intended for people who live or work in Downtown or Midtown Atlanta and use public transportation as their primary source of transportation.
Implementation Examples Outside Georgia
No data available at this time. Check back for updates.Other Resources
Efficient Parking Strategies
An outreach document by Sustainable Environment for Quality of Life (SEQL,that provides basic information and resources on efficient parking strategies
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/OITDSShared/asp/NavDisclaimer.asp?Leaving=GQGP&GoToURL=http://www.centralina.org/seql/pdfs/Efficient%20Parking%20Strategies.pdf
Flexible Parking Requirements, Thomas P. Smith, American Planning Association, Planners Book Service
Outline of a report that explores the many factors that influence flexible standards. It looks at innovative parking ordinances that offer incentives for shared parking, ridesharing, and historic preservation. It presents the results of studies of parking demand for residences, offices, hotels and motels, and outlines a process to evaluate local parking standards.
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/OITDSShared/asp/NavDisclaimer.asp?Leaving=GQGP&GoToURL=http://www.planning.org/bookservice/description.htm?BCODE=P377
