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.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Will the use this newfound space to make the lives of the citizens or the lives of the corporations better?

    I know where my bets are, on average.

    • quindraco@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Cities are trash now, this will only make them worse because corporations are stupid. The new process will look like this:

      1. Buy plot of land.
      2. Build business without adequate parking.
      3. People park on the street, which will remain mysteriously legal but exacerbate the same disasters street parking already causes.
      4. Even with that, parking is insufficient. Business goes belly-up, causing urban blight.
      5. New investor goes to Step 1.