This measure will not ban parking. It just means that it’s now up to the market. Previously, home buyers were forced to pay for parking. Whether they wanted it or not. Even if they didn’t have a car.
Yeah, that’s not how it works in reality though. The new multifamily homes that have gone up in the last few years replacing old unkempt houses in my neighborhood with an exemption to parking have made it impossible to park even with our neighborhood being a “restricted parking zone” that requires an annual pass to park. My lot is too small for a parking spot and I have one car, not out of choice, but necessity since even in a very progressive city, the transit is crap (partly due to the federal government killing the money we were planning on using to enhance it in retaliation for not checking immigration status on people arrested but released for not having actually committed any serious crime). So even though I pay $60/year to street park, I often still have to park several blocks from my home. And single family homes with off street parking are still by far more common. Unless the pubic transportation is funded enough to eliminate the absolute impossibility of living without a car, it does no good to just force said cars onto the street. “The market” you speak of is developers, not homeowners. New development will just not plan any homes with parking, because the few sales they may lose to no parking is far outweighed by doubling or more the number of hones they can build. People who buy the new homes and don’t live in the neighborhood won’t know how impossible it is to street park until after the homes are all built which could be a year or several after signing a contract.
I’ve seen this first hand where I live. That’s not how it works at all.
A developer decided to build a 30-unit building with businesses on the ground floor, downtown, with no parking, in a city that is already lacking parking facilities, and we have busses and trams.
It was quickly a shit show, and suddenly the city decided it was a bad idea.
No fucking kidding?
As corsicanguppy said, we have regulations from learning lessons the first time.
Yup relatable situation. I lived briefly in a car dependent city, lacking parking requirements and yep. Lots of townhouses, with lots of cars, and no where to put them. Loved parking blocks away after a long night at work. Quick trip to the store? 15 minute walk to the car, 20 minute drive into city center, 15 minutes to find paid parking garage and then another hike to the store’s door.
It’s nightmare stuff. Lawmakers need to embrace and fund proper alternative transportation first - then they can work on minimizing parking.
As a disabled dude who genuinely needs available, close parking (be it visiting friends or going to the bank), I hate this. Sure it’s great for some people, but if I have to park a quarter mile away and take a half-hour struggling each way, it’s dogshit.
If there’s a clause for handicapped parking, fine, but if not or if that clause has any exclusions at all, it can fuck right off.
This measure will not ban parking. It just means that it’s now up to the market. Previously, home buyers were forced to pay for parking. Whether they wanted it or not. Even if they didn’t have a car.
That’s a phrase that worked out so well in the past that we now have building codes.
Turns out the invisible hand of the market tends to mostly show you the middle finger.
Yeah, that’s not how it works in reality though. The new multifamily homes that have gone up in the last few years replacing old unkempt houses in my neighborhood with an exemption to parking have made it impossible to park even with our neighborhood being a “restricted parking zone” that requires an annual pass to park. My lot is too small for a parking spot and I have one car, not out of choice, but necessity since even in a very progressive city, the transit is crap (partly due to the federal government killing the money we were planning on using to enhance it in retaliation for not checking immigration status on people arrested but released for not having actually committed any serious crime). So even though I pay $60/year to street park, I often still have to park several blocks from my home. And single family homes with off street parking are still by far more common. Unless the pubic transportation is funded enough to eliminate the absolute impossibility of living without a car, it does no good to just force said cars onto the street. “The market” you speak of is developers, not homeowners. New development will just not plan any homes with parking, because the few sales they may lose to no parking is far outweighed by doubling or more the number of hones they can build. People who buy the new homes and don’t live in the neighborhood won’t know how impossible it is to street park until after the homes are all built which could be a year or several after signing a contract.
I’ve seen this first hand where I live. That’s not how it works at all.
A developer decided to build a 30-unit building with businesses on the ground floor, downtown, with no parking, in a city that is already lacking parking facilities, and we have busses and trams.
It was quickly a shit show, and suddenly the city decided it was a bad idea.
No fucking kidding?
As corsicanguppy said, we have regulations from learning lessons the first time.
Yup relatable situation. I lived briefly in a car dependent city, lacking parking requirements and yep. Lots of townhouses, with lots of cars, and no where to put them. Loved parking blocks away after a long night at work. Quick trip to the store? 15 minute walk to the car, 20 minute drive into city center, 15 minutes to find paid parking garage and then another hike to the store’s door.
It’s nightmare stuff. Lawmakers need to embrace and fund proper alternative transportation first - then they can work on minimizing parking.
As a disabled dude who genuinely needs available, close parking (be it visiting friends or going to the bank), I hate this. Sure it’s great for some people, but if I have to park a quarter mile away and take a half-hour struggling each way, it’s dogshit.
If there’s a clause for handicapped parking, fine, but if not or if that clause has any exclusions at all, it can fuck right off.