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If you think about it, three parking spaces take up way less space than 1 housing unit in LA.

• bluGill 3y ago
  Most housing units will have more than one person, and most of those people have cars. In most cities space dedicated to cars (parking and roads) covers about 50% of all land use. Housing, factories, stores, parks, churches, and the like are the other half. Note that the above is about land area. Housing units are often stacked vertically, while car parking rarely stacked.
  • bombcar 3y ago
    Where land is actually precious, parking gets stacked. Where it is not stacked, it’s obviously not that terribly valuable.
    • bluGill 3y ago
      Stacking parking is done. However it is so expensive to build that before it is worth stacking parking you are already building less parking than there is demand. The cost to park in stacked parking regularly means the costs to park there are high enough to make most customers look for alternatives. There are places just outside of downtown where the demand for cheap surface lot parking is higher than total parking spaces - but the people who go there would not pay for stacked parking. Thus while stacked parking exists, it is more costly than the value most people consider it to provide. Of course places where stacked parking is even a thought are also places where density is high enough that it isn't hard to run a great transit system and so there is less need for parking at all.
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