“It’s not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!”
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
“It’s not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!”
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
What’s wrong with underground parkings?
Keep the space underground available for underpasses and subways.
More expensive than the building itself below a certain size
That’s what regulations are for
Underground spots are roughly 20 to 50 thousand dollars each. Surface lots are only a few thousand per spot.
Do you want to invest in my coffee shop idea? I need a few million dollars to build the required parking.
It’s hard to think beyond the individualistic businesses oriented thinking. I see you, it’s ok.
But I was thinking about public parking spaces.
Parking regulations don’t apply to public projects. Strong Towns well documents the problem with parking regulations as they are written and applied in practice. I highly recommend checking it out.
maybe we just don’t really need the parking spaces?
Nothing. Build it if you want, but parking minimums are anti-people and city decaying laws.
The point is, parking minimums should include area maximum. But yeah it seems they are especially designed to be awefull…