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Around the topic of allowing apartment builders to not necessarily build parking for every single unit, there's enormous anxieties and fears around a resulting

Around the topic of allowing apartment builders to not necessarily build parking for every single unit, there's enormous anxieties and fears around a resulting explosion in people parking on the street and people not being able to find street parking. Maybe it's an imagined problem that should just be ignored, but if we wanted to tackle the hypothetical issue head on we could pivot toward a more comprehensive tracking of cars to parking spots, and only license cars if they have a known, associated parking spot, whether that be a garage on private property, or a license from the city to park on the street long term. I'm under the impression that Japan does something similar to this?

milkytron 3y ago
> Around the topic of allowing apartment builders to not necessarily build parking for every single unit, there's enormous anxieties and fears around a resulting explosion in people parking on the street and people not being able to find street parking. This already happens where I live, but the buildings provide plenty of parking and most of it goes unused. The reason is because a spot in the garage is not free, I think it's like $50 or $100 a month. So people just park on the street and the garages are mostly vacant. My city is now looking into paid street parking via permits, I'm sure if that gets adopted, people will start using the garages more and streets parking will become much more available. The way it works is that if you live in one of the neighborhoods that requires a permit for street parking, you can park anywhere as long as your permit is paid.