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I didn't even know that minimum parking was an issue, where else can I read about this? How prevalent is it in other cities? It sounds like some 50s/60s era whi

I didn't even know that minimum parking was an issue, where else can I read about this? How prevalent is it in other cities? It sounds like some 50s/60s era white flight policy permanently enshrining cars into city life. I've been to Bentonville (~2016) quite a bit for work, always said I'd go to Fayetteville next time. Bentonville wasn't anything worth writing about for how I want to live but I can see it being an attractive place for quite a lot of people, I was kind of surprised by how underpopulated it seemed. I guess not a lot of jobs outside of the obvious few. Crystal Bridges was a great museum, the Ozarks are lovely. In general I felt a lot more positive visiting that area than I was expecting to.

mperham 5y ago
So much of American zoning code makes our suburbs into ugly, inhumane places. StrongTowns.org is a good place to start. Their blog is great and will quickly radicalize you.
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drivers99 5y ago
A couple YouTube channels I'd suggest: https://www.youtube.com/notjustbikes https://www.youtube.com/notjustbikes https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful If you want to go deep on parking policy, here's a talk by Donald Shoup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gokb4rPik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gokb4rPik
Cryptid 5y ago
the webiste Strong Towns has some good info on parking minimums: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minimums-from-101-to-taking-action https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minim... Some more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/to-save-the-planet-kill-minimum-parking-mandates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/to-save-t...
johnatthebar 5y ago
good short video summary: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/19/15993936/high-cost-of-free-parking https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/19/15993936/high-cost-of-f...
ceras 5y ago
Minimum parking requirements are ubiquitous in the US. Houston, famous for "not having zoning," has these too and is the reason it's as car-centric as the rest of the US (only in 2019 did it remove them for a small part of the city). Even Downtown Brooklyn, one of the best connected areas by public transit in NYC, has minimum parking requirements to this day. Manhattan used to as well: they were only lifted in the 80s as a response to federal regulation requiring cities to have better air quality. (Manhattan went even further and added parking maximums, which is very rare.) In NYC, this is one reason (among others) landlords often don't demolish old buildings to replace them with newer ones: old ones were grandfathered and predated parking minimums. Demolishing and replacing them means you have to build parking. In many places, old buildings are already at the max height allowed by zoning, so demolishing a building means replacing residential square footage with parking. You'd actually be removing housing from a city in a housing crisis if you followed regulations!

mperham 5y ago

So much of American zoning code makes our suburbs into ugly, inhumane places. StrongTowns.org is a good place to start. Their blog is great and will quickly radicalize you.

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drivers99 5y ago

A couple YouTube channels I'd suggest: https://www.youtube.com/notjustbikes https://www.youtube.com/notjustbikes https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful If you want to go deep on parking policy, here's a talk by Donald Shoup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gokb4rPik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gokb4rPik

Cryptid 5y ago

the webiste Strong Towns has some good info on parking minimums: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minimums-from-101-to-taking-action https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minim... Some more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/to-save-the-planet-kill-minimum-parking-mandates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/to-save-t...

johnatthebar 5y ago

good short video summary: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/19/15993936/high-cost-of-free-parking https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/19/15993936/high-cost-of-f...

ceras 5y ago

Minimum parking requirements are ubiquitous in the US. Houston, famous for "not having zoning," has these too and is the reason it's as car-centric as the rest of the US (only in 2019 did it remove them for a small part of the city). Even Downtown Brooklyn, one of the best connected areas by public transit in NYC, has minimum parking requirements to this day. Manhattan used to as well: they were only lifted in the 80s as a response to federal regulation requiring cities to have better air quality. (Manhattan went even further and added parking maximums, which is very rare.) In NYC, this is one reason (among others) landlords often don't demolish old buildings to replace them with newer ones: old ones were grandfathered and predated parking minimums. Demolishing and replacing them means you have to build parking. In many places, old buildings are already at the max height allowed by zoning, so demolishing a building means replacing residential square footage with parking. You'd actually be removing housing from a city in a housing crisis if you followed regulations!