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

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!