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> reduction in the required number of parking spaces per residence unit Can you elaborate on how this helps people? It was my thinking that requiring a minimum
by zhng 13y ago
> reduction in the required number of parking spaces per residence unit
Can you elaborate on how this helps people? It was my thinking that requiring a minimum of 1 space per bedroom would help things. Parking is already burdensome and very costly.
- rayiner 13y agoParking wastes valuable land and creates undesirable and dangerous pedestrian spaces. There should be no parking space requirement. Let the market figure out the right number.
- nerfhammer 13y agoAs long as parking spaces are a free public good the market won't figure out the right number
- dllthomas 13y agoWhy should they be free?
- nerfhammer 13y agoThey shouldn't.
- dllthomas 13y agoAh. Where there is sufficient density, I fully agree. Where there is not, I'm less confident, but I don't disagree.
- gress 13y agoMake cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.
- wmf 13y agoI don't think a lost decade is what low-income people need right now.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'd interpreted that as about 60% of the point.
- gress 13y agoExactly - making things harder for people as a way to stimulate the market to cause change just makes the world a nastier place.
- dllthomas 13y agoSure, but in this case it's "doing less to warp the market in ways that make it easier for particular people". Regardless you've got to think about who will take up the slack and how while things adjust, though.
- gress 13y agoI think we are still tinning about markets in Newtonian terms, where in reality they are relativistic - everything warps the market.
- DougWebb 13y agoOr, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.
- gress 13y agoIndeed, or a haven for people who can use Uber for all transport.
- jseliger 13y agoCan you elaborate on how this helps people? See Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking: http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/193236496X?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957 http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/1... . Parking is already very expensive in many urban areas and it's implicitly subsidized by zoning requirements. The true cost of parking is even higher. Places built explicitly around parking (like Atlanta or Phoenix) end up paying high time costs in the form of driving. There is no free lunch (or in this case, parking spot).
- danielharan 13y agoThis is a great explanation: http://daily.sightline.org/2013/08/22/apartment-blockers/ http://daily.sightline.org/2013/08/22/apartment-blockers/ "The research hints at the rent increases caused by some of the “rent raisers” above: 6 percent higher rent per parking space in Los Angeles, 12.5 percent in Litman’s model, up to 35 percent in the forthcoming Sightline analysis."