Perhaps no code requirement has more fundamentally shaped our cities since the 1940s and ’50s than the off-street parking mandate. Put simply, these local rules generally require new developments to provide a certain number of off-street parking spaces, and they have dramatically changed the North American environment – leading to everything from strip malls to office parks to big-box stores. Over the past decade or so, advocates have begun to recognize the harm of these one-size-fits-all mandates and have pushed planners in some cities to dial them back.