What is the Strategic Parking Plan?

The Strategic Parking Plan is a comprehensive, city-wide framework for coordinating parking related issues. A one-size-fits-all approach cannot effectively manage parking for Denver’s diverse neighborhoods and business areas. Therefore, the plan will explore innovative strategies and recommend new ways to manage parking. Although the plan will not provide recommendations for specific neighborhoods and locations, it will recommend new tools, policies and a process for involving community stakeholders in parking management at the local level.

Why develop a Strategic Parking Plan?

Parking plays an important role in how we travel and design our cities. It affects our environmental quality and our economic development. Parking is a valuable asset requiring careful management. Ensuring a proper balance of supply and demand for different users can be a complex process. The Strategic Parking Plan provides an opportunity to proactively address parking as part of the city’s vision for transportation and development.

What are the plan goals?

The Strategic Parking Plan is an opportunity to implement the goals of other city-wide plans including Blueprint Denver, Greenprint Denver, the Strategic Transportation Plan, and the Denver Comprehensive Plan. These goals include:Promoting environmentally and economically sustainable development, encouraging sustainable transportation choices, creating healthy, livable neighborhoods and places, and ensuring housing affordability

The Strategic Parking Plan recognizes that parking plays a significant role in shaping our city, our environmental quality, and our transportation choices. The plan will offer parking tools and strategies that reflect these goals. The plan also presents an opportunity to coordinate outcomes with other city-wide and regional initiatives including the FasTracks transit system, transit-oriented development planning, Denver’s New Zoning Code and the Living Streets initiative.

Read the complete Strategic Parking Plan Phase 1 Study.