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.

  • helenslunch
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    6 months ago

    parking minimums were only developed in the first place so that businesses could attract wealthy white suburbanites as they fled cities

    No, parking minimums were created because people were just parking their shit wherever the fuck they wanted, to the point that streets became unusable.