“It’s not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!”
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
I agree that parking minimums are criminal, but get this AI generated slop off my feed
It’s not even good genAI, looks like some dollar tree model made it LMAO
There is a ballot measure in Eureka California right now, measure F, in which a local multimillionaire is fighting to keep parking spaces, and stop housing from being built instead.
I agree, fuck cars, but cars won’t disappear and be banned overnight. Even if we begin getting rid of cars one policy at a time, parking will still be a requirement. I live in a country without any parking requirement laws (no laws at all really), and the roads are uhh… interesting. Even nicer areas have roads that feel like slums because everyone is parked all over the street.
dude, you really should do some introspection if roadside parking makes something look like a slum to you.
in this case, you might be part of the problem
RoadSIDE parking is chill. Middle of the road, all over the road, motorcycles zipping in between parked cars, cars parked on the little sidewalks we have in my country. I’ve visited actual slums in the Middle East: they feel similar.
What’s wrong with underground parkings?
More expensive than the building itself below a certain size
That’s what regulations are for
Underground spots are roughly 20 to 50 thousand dollars each. Surface lots are only a few thousand per spot.
Do you want to invest in my coffee shop idea? I need a few million dollars to build the required parking.
It’s hard to think beyond the individualistic businesses oriented thinking. I see you, it’s ok.
But I was thinking about public parking spaces.
maybe we just don’t really need the parking spaces?
People that need parking spaces choose their representatives and attend city halls. May we need to do the same…
Parking regulations don’t apply to public projects. Strong Towns well documents the problem with parking regulations as they are written and applied in practice. I highly recommend checking it out.
Nothing. Build it if you want, but parking minimums are anti-people and city decaying laws.
The point is, parking minimums should include area maximum. But yeah it seems they are especially designed to be awefull…
Keep the space underground available for underpasses and subways.
