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Their new law requires parking lots with more than 80 spaces to have solar panels. Great idea, where I live I'm pretty much maxing out the percentage of permit
by jopsen 11mo ago
Their new law requires parking lots with more than 80 spaces to have solar panels.
Great idea, where I live I'm pretty much maxing out the percentage of permitted structures allowed by zoning.
I could imagine that if solar panel carports didn't count towards structure limits, I'd build a carport across my absurdly large driveway :)
I think there are lots of "free" ways we could incentivize private construction of solar panels -- even without monetary subsidies.
Or we could even tax people for not doing it. In Denmark your land is taxed based on what it's zoned for, and how it could be utilized (not how it is utilized).
- FooBarWidget 11mo agoI hope this doesn't result in new parking lots to "coincidentally" only have 79 parking lots.
- hinkley 11mo agoSome of us wouldn’t minds so much. That puts a cap on how car focused commercial real estate can be.
- _aavaa_ 11mo agoDepends on country, some have fixed ratios based on occupancy or square footage of shopping area. Which they could shrink, but it would raise the final price per square foot (land price stays the same and most construction costs don’t get that much smaller if you shave off a few hundred sqft).
- hinkley 11mo agoI think I would like it if it better if it were an either or. Either solar panels, or rain gardens, or permeable pavement, or canopy, or some combination. But then again that might make loopholes that make my head spin. Might have to leave the higher rung up to organizations like LEED and leave the minimums as one or maybe two choices. Maybe make the other harder than solar unless you have a weird situation where say adding trees is simpler than running power distribution, like across the street from the shop.