Transportation

Parking Reform Cartoon Scores Most Canadian Victory Ever

“This wasn’t really about parking,” says Ottawa planner. “This was about the kind of city people want to live in.”
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It helps to have a cartoonist in the city planning department. At least that’s one of the lessons that Ottawa’s Urban Design Branch learned after city planner Tim Moerman crafted a sweetly goofy animation on that driest of urban topics: minimum parking requirements.