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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 12y 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 12y 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 12y agoAs long as parking spaces are a free public good the market won't figure out the right number
- dllthomas 12y agoWhy should they be free?
- nerfhammer 12y agoThey shouldn't.
- dllthomas 12y agoAh. Where there is sufficient density, I fully agree. Where there is not, I'm less confident, but I don't disagree.
- gress 12y agoMake cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.
- wmf 12y agoI don't think a lost decade is what low-income people need right now.
- dllthomas 12y agoI'd interpreted that as about 60% of the point.
- gress 12y agoExactly - making things harder for people as a way to stimulate the market to cause change just makes the world a nastier place.
- dllthomas 12y 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 12y agoI think we are still tinning about markets in Newtonian terms, where in reality they are relativistic - everything warps the market.
- DougWebb 12y agoOr, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.
- gress 12y agoIndeed, or a haven for people who can use Uber for all transport.
- jseliger 12y 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 12y 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."