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0 pointsURSpider948y ago0 comments

You have a right to disagree, but modern city planning experts tend to agree that parking minimums are bad policy that artificially subsidize personal autos.

Developers should put in exactly as much parking as their customers are willing to buy at market rate. Street parking should be paid, either by meter or though market-rate annual permit costs.

Forcing urban drivers to pay full price to have a private car is the only way we will push enough money into other modes of transportation to make them economically feasible.

https://medium.com/@ezheidtmann/minimum-parking-requirements...

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prostoalex8y ago

> Street parking should be paid, either by meter or though market-rate annual permit costs.

Totally agree with this. The problems arise when things don't start that way, and developers quickly monetize the opportunity to offload those costs to someone else.

Buyers usually shop on $/sq.ft., not on $/sq.ft + parking availability, so raising awareness among buyers would help balance the market out.

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