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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION 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
APRIL8, 2025
Mr. G
ARCIAof California (for himself, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PETERS, Mr. MULLIN,
Ms. T
OKUDA, Mr. NADLER, Mr. FROST, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. CASAR, Ms.
A
NSARI, and Ms. FRIEDMAN) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred 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 connec-
tion with certain new residential and commercial develop-
ments, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘People Over Parking 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PREEMPTION OF STATE AND LOCAL LAWS REQUIR-1
ING THE PROVISION OF PARKING SPOTS FOR 2
NEW DEVELOPMENTS. 3
(a) A
UTHORITYREGARDINGPROVISION OFPARKING 4
S
POTS.—In the case of a newly constructed or substan-5
tially reconstructed or rehabilitated residential, retail, 6
commercial, or industrial structure in or affecting inter-7
state or foreign commerce that is located not more than 8
0.5 miles from the closest covered public transit point, or 9
a project for such new construction or substantial recon-10
struction or rehabilitation that has been permitted or oth-11
erwise authorized by the appropriate agency of local gov-12
ernment to be undertaken, the owner of such structure 13
or project shall have the sole discretion to determine how 14
many automobile parking spots to provide in connection 15
with such structure. 16
(b) R
ELATION TOSTATELAW.—Any law, regulation, 17
or other requirement of a State or political subdivision of 18
a State that is inconsistent with this section is preempted, 19
but only to the extent of such inconsistency. 20
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 21
following definitions shall apply: 22
(1) C
OVERED PUBLIC TRANSIT POINT .—The 23
term ‘‘covered public transit point’’ means a pas-24
senger point of access to a fixed guideway, except 25
that— 26
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(A) with respect to a passenger ferry sys-1
tem, only a point of access that is serviced by 2
an additional mode of public transportation; 3
and 4
(B) with respect to a bus system that is 5
not a bus rapid transit station, only a point of 6
access that intersects 2 or more bus routes with 7
a frequency of service interval at such point of 8
access of not more than 15 minutes during 9
morning and afternoon peak commuting peri-10
ods. 11
(2) F
IXED GUIDEWAY ; PUBLIC TRANSPOR -12
TATION.—The terms ‘‘fixed guideway’’ and ‘‘public 13
transportation’’ have the meanings given such terms 14
in section 5302 of title 49, United States Code. 15
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