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.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Cheaper housing doesn’t help if you can’t get a job because you can’t afford to have a car because you can’t park it. Of course the opposite is also true but our society is already biased toward car ownership