03-17-2021, 07:06 PM
(03-17-2021, 06:00 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(03-17-2021, 03:38 PM)ac3r Wrote: Some affordable middle housing would be perfect there. You could easily fit 10+ units on that location...even more if you don't have any stupid parking minimums. I doubt that would ever happen, though.
The notion of parking minima applying to affordable housing is even more absurd than the general notion of parking minima.
Our whole society is unaffordable, not to mention messing up the climate in which it lives, in large part due to our massive overuse of the admittedly very useful technology of motorized personal vehicles.
People who have to watch every penny should not be forced to pay for parking; if they are stuck in a life situation that requires them to drive, then they can buy parking.
It’s weird. I tend to think of a $2000 bicycle as a luxury item unlikely to be owned by anybody in the bottom quartile of income; but in fact such a vehicle is way more affordable than the $5000 car they might own which is constantly causing them to have to spend additional money on repairs and maintenance. Assuming we had the small investment in bicycle roadways required to support this, our poor people would suddenly be much richer, in effect and on average, if they ditched their cars and bought fancy bicycles.
Preach!
Even worse, one is far far more likely to be stolen, and not returned.
This is the thing that's frustrating, yes, motorvehicles can be useful. Just like screwdrivers are useful. But if we were drowning in screwdrivers, we wouldn't be arguing that they are useful and we can't get rid of them.