People Over Parking Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2710 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2710 To allow property owners the discretion to make decisions regarding how many parking spots to provide in connection with certain new residential and commercial developments, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 8, 2025 Mr. Garcia of California (for himself, Ms. Omar, Mr. Peters, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Frost, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Casar, Ms. Ansari, and Ms. Friedman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To allow property owners the discretion to make decisions regarding how many parking spots to provide in connection with certain new residential and commercial developments, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``People Over Parking Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. PREEMPTION OF STATE AND LOCAL LAWS REQUIRING THE PROVISION OF PARKING SPOTS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS. (a) Authority Regarding Provision of Parking Spots.--In the case of a newly constructed or substantially reconstructed or rehabilitated residential, retail, commercial, or industrial structure in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce that is located not more than 0.5 miles from the closest covered public transit point, or a project for such new construction or substantial reconstruction or rehabilitation that has been permitted or otherwise authorized by the appropriate agency of local government to be undertaken, the owner of such structure or project shall have the sole discretion to determine how many automobile parking spots to provide in connection with such structu