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People Over Parking Act of 2025

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.

Introduced Apr 8, 2025

Latest action (Apr 8, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Referred to
Financial Services Committee
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
Issues
Housing

Summary
  • Allows property owners to decide how many parking spots to provide for newly constructed or substantially renovated residential, retail, commercial, or industrial buildings located within 0.5 miles of adequate public transit
  • Applies to structures in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or to projects that have been permitted or authorized by local government
  • Preempts state and local laws requiring minimum parking spot provisions for new developments, except where they do not conflict with this provision
  • Defines "covered public transit point" as locations with fixed guideway transit service, or bus systems with 2 or more routes operating at 15-minute intervals during peak commuting hours

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
10 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Robert Garcia’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $14,250
  • WATERFORD PROPERTY COMPANY $13,200
  • SHANGRI-LA INDUSTRIES $9,900
  • CURTIN MARITIME $9,900
  • LEE ANDREWS GROUP $7,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Robert Garcia → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 8, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. · house
  2. Apr 8, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 3555 — Protect our Parks Act of 2025 · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 5018 — Naomi Schwartz and Susan Rose Safe Parking Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 3712 — Complete Streets Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 1769 — Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 623 — LICENSE Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 60%
  • HR 3440 — Traffic Safety Enhancement Act of 2025 · Introduced May 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 60%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 8, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

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 structure.

(b) Relation to State Law.—Any law, regulation, or other requirement of a State or political subdivision of a State that is inconsistent with this section is preempted, but only to the extent of such inconsistency.

(c) Definitions.—For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) Covered public transit point.—The term “covered public transit point” means a passenger point of access to a fixed guideway, except that—

(A) with respect to a passenger ferry system, only a point of access that is serviced by an additional mode of public transportation; and

(B) with respect to a bus system that is not a bus rapid transit station, only a point of access that intersects 2 or more bus routes with a frequency of service interval at such point of access of not more than 15 minutes during morning and afternoon peak commuting periods.

(2) Fixed guideway; public transportation.—The terms “fixed guideway” and “public transportation” have the meanings given such terms in section 5302 of title 49, United States Code. <all>

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