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Yes, you did inasmuch as you said people should be required to build parking. Person A lives in a nice old house in a quaint neighborhood built before cars. Th
by CalRobert 8y ago
Yes, you did inasmuch as you said people should be required to build parking.
Person A lives in a nice old house in a quaint neighborhood built before cars. They park their car on the street.
Time goes by. More people buy cars, and more people move in. The street parking becomes full.
Person A is outraged that their ability to park on the street is gone. They demand all new homes have off-street parking.
Newcomer to the neighborhood, say some weird hippie cyclist who doesn't own a car (like me), has to pay more for their home because the land that could have held 8 homes now holds 5.
Their property taxes help pay for person A's parking.
Of course, it doesn't work that well. Off-street parking _still_ takes up street space for access.
If people want parking they will demand it and pay more for it. Some people want helipads but we don't force everyone to have a private helipad in case they run out of space on the street for your helicopter.
Why do people demand parking minimums? Because the street parking is full.
- TomMarius 8y agoThank you for putting my thoughts into words much better that I could. I'd just like to add that the "personal car" era might be coming to its end and we should work with that as well - underground garages are hard to convert to anything useful. > has to pay more for their home because the land that could have held 8 homes now holds 5. Yes, and the parking space itself costs a non-trivial amount of money (40-50k USD - if it has to be underground), especially for people in Eastern European metropolises.