Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements, hoping to end up with less parking – and more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.

The city council in Austin, Texas recently proposed something that could seem like political Kryptonite: getting rid of parking minimums.

Those are the rules that dictate how much off-street parking developers must provide — as in, a certain number of spaces for every apartment and business.

Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements – hoping to end up with less parking, more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.

  • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    10 months ago

    If you look at the context of my point - this is basically saying to my reading “Hell yea, we should have no contact between us righteous city dwellers and those outsiders”.

    • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
      1·
      10 months ago

      You’ll get stores closer to you once it becomes impractical to drive to the center of a major urban area and park there

      The same stores that closed when you built too many roads and incentivized everybody to drive 15 miles to a store