CT Parking Reform: Coverage and Op-eds

Do CT towns and cities have too much parking? Some advocates hoping for parking reform say yes by Michael Walsh, CT Insider (February 2025)

"Tom Broderick and Casey Moran, two of those advocates, recently created CT Parking Reform, a mapping of town and city centers in all of Connecticut's municipalities as a way of seeing just how much land space is being devoted to off-street parking. Their findings? Nearly one third of land in 191 districts they mapped is set aside for parking."

Parking Reform offers many benefits for CT Communities by Sara Bronin, National Zoning Atlas and Daniel Herriges, Parking Reform Network (April 2025)

"In Connecticut this legislative session, legislators have put such a change on the table. House Bill 7061 offers an opportunity to correct a pernicious set of policies that have quietly raised the cost of living for residents and undermined the vitality of our cities and towns: parking mandates."

CT bill would eliminate minimum off-street parking requirements by Ginny Monk, CT Mirror (February 2025)

“'These parking mandates are completely arbitrary, lack consistency town to town and often within the same town,' said Casey Moran, co-founder of CT Parking Reform, pointing to parking requirements for bowling alleys in several different towns across the state."

A Place to Walk, Not Just Park by Roger Senserrich, CT Examiner (February 2025

"There is a very simple way to make our towns and cities nicer: Eliminate parking mandates. There is a bill right now under consideration in the state legislature, H.B. 7061, that would do exactly that, letting business owners decide what they need without arbitrary, made-up, top-down impositions. Let them share spots if they choose to, rely on nearby garages or lots, or trust that their customers will walk, bike, or take public transportation to the premises. Instead of forcing businesses to subsidize drivers by dedicating most of their property to cars, we should let them decide what to do with their land. Instead of the current rules imposing strip malls everywhere, we should allow denser, non-car-centric development. Essentially, we should make traditional main streets and downtown areas — built-up, walkable, where cars do not take up all the space — legal again."

Opinion: Let's stop paving paradise. Make CT's Main Streets legal again by Tom Broderick and Casey Moran, CT Parking Reform (May 2025)

"Everyone knows the parable of the old and young fish: an older fish asks the two younger fish how the water is and they ask one another 'What is water?' In Connecticut, the water we don’t know we’re swimming in is our web of land-use policies that mandate sprawl development and make our favorite Main Streets illegal to build again. "

Part I: Parking Reform is Getting the Job Done in Hartford (August 2025)

Part II: CT shouldn’t lose its opportunity for parking reform (August 2025)

"Hartford wisely realized this and made history when it became the first American city to fully eliminate parking mandates city-wide in 2016. While Hartford’s parking reforms took time to kick in, they’re helping lead to an infill building boom in the city."