Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements, hoping to end up with less parking – and more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.
The city council in Austin, Texas recently proposed something that could seem like political Kryptonite: getting rid of parking minimums.
Those are the rules that dictate how much off-street parking developers must provide — as in, a certain number of spaces for every apartment and business.
Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements – hoping to end up with less parking, more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.
This is a war against the poor. More Neo Feudalism. No solution provided, and a shortsighted spin to fool the idiot masses. The minimums ensure parking is available for the poor. They will put a courthouse downtown and no one will be able to afford to park around it because the poor live on the outskirts and public transit is a joke in the USA.
This allows more housing to be built on the same plot of land, which lowers the price of housing. I would venture to guess most poor people would prefer cheaper housing over guaranteed parking.
Cheaper housing doesn’t help if you can’t get a job because you can’t afford to have a car because you can’t park it. Of course the opposite is also true but our society is already biased toward car ownership
You build the infrastructure first. It will never help the or make housing more affordable, it will just lead to more rich development unless it is stringently regulated. Liberalism is a thin veil for exploitation. All protections are in place for the disadvantaged and vulnerable that have no way to bribe their solutions in life. This is a failure if critical thinking skills. It is a deceptive spin on abusive policy.
I mean, in Los Angeles they just got rid of the parking requirement for ADUs, which allows many more of those to be built. I had no way to build an ADU on my property before because it required off-street parking. Now it doesn't, so I'm beginning construction of more housing. I'm not the only one, either. I know multiple people building new properties to rent after this change.
In 2-3 years parking will follow a supply and demand market and all of these places will be unlivable as a result. Shrugging shoulders policy does not improve anything for public transit. The parking situation will just make life more untenable in the end.
I'm in the Los Angeles area and was disabled by the 7th car to hit me within 100k miles of commuting by bicycle full time. I tried buses and the train. The trains are not frequent enough or reliable as the only option. You work for the train with your job taking the back seat. The frequency of train suicides means you'll either not have an option to get home or might get trapped on a train for 4+ hours held hostage by the incompetent investigation policy. Buses are a complete joke where you waste hours waiting at multiple stops. I can travel faster on a bicycle on most routes. Incompetent driver culture makes bikes and even walking a game of roulette in LA. I was disabled by someone with over 20 citations on their record. They got a DUI while I was still in the ICU. At the time, and to this day that person still has a license to only drive to and from work, but they are self employed. The court acknowledges driving is the only viable option, and there is no low bar for incompetency.