Shoreline abolishes parking mandates

Shoreline Makes Good on Pledge to Stop Mandating Car Parking Citywide » The Urbanist

The Shoreline City Council voted 6-0 Monday night to fully eliminate mandates for off-street parking stalls as part of new development everywhere in the city. The move follows in the footsteps of other Washington cities including Spokane, Bremerton, and Bothell, which have all adopted similar policies in recent months. Dropping parking mandates is intended to help ease housing costs and provide more flexibility to homebuilders. Letting builders …

Shoreline abolishes parking mandates

In his 2025 State of the City Speech Mayor Chris Roberts said Shoreline will become one of the first cities in the state to abolish parking mandates (photo by Oliver J Moffat)By Oliver J. MoffatThe Shoreline city council voted to delete the city's "arbitrary" parking mandates, placing the onus on property owners to decide how much pavement they need.The Shoreline city council abolished parking mandates at the August 11, 2025 meeting, joining Bot…