Ending parking requirement means that developers and businesses decide how much parking to build rather than arbitrary government mandates. It’s been shown to lower housing costs, give businesses more flexibility, and right-size parking lots.
A developer could build a condo right next to a transit hub or self contained community and offer little to no parking at all. If people are willing to live in them, the developer would sell those condos. If the developer gets it wrong, they won’t sell anything.
Worth nothing, about 20% of Denver renters don’t own a car. Right now, those renters pay $200-300/month for parking they don’t use because it’s bundled into rent. Your solution is basically forcing all residents to subsidize car ownership.
The problem you are describing sounds like an opportunity to build parking garages. Yes, it would cost to use them, but it would decouple the cost of having a car from the cost of living space.
It also causes problems for people who can’t afford their own parking.
When we bought a house, as we were moving out of our last apartment, we were told that because parking at the complex was tight, cars that hadn’t moved in 3 days would be towed.
Now my wife and I both worked from home, we each had a car, and it was not unusual for neither car to move for up to 6 days at a time.
So had we stayed, we would have had to switch parking spaces every 3 days, just for fun, to avoid being towed by the very complex in which we were living.
Ending parking requirement means that developers and businesses decide how much parking to build rather than arbitrary government mandates. It’s been shown to lower housing costs, give businesses more flexibility, and right-size parking lots.
A developer could build a condo right next to a transit hub or self contained community and offer little to no parking at all. If people are willing to live in them, the developer would sell those condos. If the developer gets it wrong, they won’t sell anything.
Worth nothing, about 20% of Denver renters don’t own a car. Right now, those renters pay $200-300/month for parking they don’t use because it’s bundled into rent. Your solution is basically forcing all residents to subsidize car ownership.
The problem you are describing sounds like an opportunity to build parking garages. Yes, it would cost to use them, but it would decouple the cost of having a car from the cost of living space.
It also causes problems for people who can’t afford their own parking.
When we bought a house, as we were moving out of our last apartment, we were told that because parking at the complex was tight, cars that hadn’t moved in 3 days would be towed.
Now my wife and I both worked from home, we each had a car, and it was not unusual for neither car to move for up to 6 days at a time.
So had we stayed, we would have had to switch parking spaces every 3 days, just for fun, to avoid being towed by the very complex in which we were living.