Downtown Parking App
with Walk-Time Routing

A lakefront suburb needed residents and visitors to understand downtown parking at a glance — the lots, the restrictions, and the question everyone asks: "how far is this lot from where I'm going?"

ArcGIS Experience Builder, the standard no-code tool, couldn't deliver it — specifically interactive walk-time from a user-set origin, and an interface that works on a phone at the curb as well as a desktop.

There was no internal template to start from — so this had to be designed, built, and deployed from scratch, in a way that could be reused rather than rebuilt next time.

A custom React + ArcGIS app maps every CBD lot with color-coded restrictions and tappable profiles — enforcement schedules, EV charging, permits. Mobile-first, built for someone deciding where to park from the sidewalk.

The headline feature: on-demand walk-time routing. Set an origin and the app draws the walking distance and time to each lot — the exact capability Experience Builder couldn't provide.

A single JSON config drives the whole app, making it portable to any community with no code changes. I validated the lot data with stakeholders, deployed it, and left behind a template rather than a one-off.

Residents and visitors now have a public-facing tool that gives instant clarity on parking options and walking distances — reducing confusion and improving the downtown experience, on whatever device they happen to have in hand.

I carried this from requirements through deployment on my own — a demonstration that a tailored, developer-built solution can deliver what off-the-shelf tools can't, across the whole arc: requirements, data, build, and deployment.

Because the app is JSON-configurable, it became a reusable standard rather than a single deliverable. A second municipal parking map was built directly from this foundation with no code changes — the clearest proof that the investment paid forward into future work.