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Surface parking lots take a huge volume of space that could be used to house tens or hundreds of families. It has nothing to do with "cars bad", and everything
by turtledove 4y ago
Surface parking lots take a huge volume of space that could be used to house tens or hundreds of families.
It has nothing to do with "cars bad", and everything to do with "why are we letting all this precious resource go so poorly utilized?"
- b112 4y agoThis is the problem. You have an agenda (cars are unimportant / should be banned), therefore, you cite parking lots as "poorly utilized". You also act as if there is a land shortage. There is not, with exceptions stated above.
- UncleMeat 4y agoNo. The problem is "space is being used inefficiently." The reason to get rid of enormous surface parking lots is to build more efficiently, not to kill cars.
- turtledove 4y agoYou are falling prey to the fundamental attribution error. It has nothing to do with "cars should be banned". If my objective is "maximize housing" then step one is too evaluate the space and find areas where housing does not exist in quantity. Those are places like parking lots, parks, commerical only buildings, single family homes, hospitals, schools, etc. To increase supply, we must tear down existing sites. Parking lots have the most limited positive upsides. Where would you build a new, 1000 unit apartment building downtown?
- cuteboy19 4y agoYou can easily use Google Maps on some European city and compare it with an American city. The problem will be obvious to you then