02-19-2019, 06:26 PM
(02-19-2019, 02:51 PM)jamincan Wrote: Or simply reducing parking minima for residential construction. I don't think it's desirable to have residential construction rely on on-street parking for its residents.
Nope, eliminate. But be clear as to what the street parking policies are. Where city street parking is provided (not everywhere, most likely), price it, SFPark-style.
The reason I am so certain about parking minima is because they are a zoning policy that is known to have a bad outcome. It’s not like advocating for businesses to charge for parking, for example, which is more complicated and has multiple responsibilities: am I hoping to convince businesses to charge, or one or another level of government to require charging, or something else? With parking minima, it’s clear: just stop doing that bad thing. If some developers build some no-parking developments and then can’t sell them because they screwed up the parking, that’s on them, just like any other decision made in the course of business.
I do agree that it might be more politically realistic to start by only reducing parking minima, especially for residential properties. But really they should be eliminated entirely.