Parking in Waterloo Region

[REnerd]

Y'all are welcome to have your concerns or preferences for parking. Why should that prevent someone from buying a unit without a parking spot if that's what they want?...

I'd be more concerned with the impact that a building with little or no parking would have on the neighbourhood. For example the visitor's parking area (assuming there was one) would likely have to be strictly regulated/policed. Likewise for street parking in the immediate neighbourhood.

Yes, I agree.  I believe that this is one of the problems the Madison/Revel people had at a project in Kitchener.  They received reduced parking for a building that ultimately became a rental building.  When all the tenants moved in, the street was filled up and there were serious neighborhood parking problems.

I agree that nobody should be able to stop you from BUYING a unit without parking.  But certainly the city should be able to stop you from BUILDING a unit without parking.  This is why the city staffs planners and urban designers, because they (hopefully) know what works well and what will just cause problems.