> I think you're halfway talking past the person you replied to. The two of you agree that car owners should actually pay for parking spots. From their reply,

> I think you're halfway talking past the person you replied to. The two of you agree that car owners should actually pay for parking spots. From their reply, I think you're mostly right, in that we both agree that parking should not be free for car owners. > I think you may be thinking "require developers to build parking spots for planned occupants of (apartment/store/building)" but the person you replied to was advocating not for building more parking spots, but rather limiting the number of car registrations to the number of parking spots. The issue is that, unless parking spots are themselves capped (or extremely costly), this just encourages developers to build more parking spaces. It's not as bad as using public land for it, but it's still bad.