Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed

[the_conestoga_guy]

The only way the cities could require that is if they made it a requirement of the zoning bylaw where they basically state one parking space shall be reserved for carshare for every X units. 

However where this gets complicated is within MTSAs, the province made the minimum parking requirement within MTSAs zero spaces (Kitchener already had this stipulation), as such requiring a singular car share spot as a requirement would go against the province and that is bound to cause problems.

One could definitely get around that by writing something in terms of parking spaces, for example, for every X parking spaces one must include a car share space. However that could easily be circumvented by a developer by having less than X spaces provided since they legally require zero. The other glaring problem I could see developing is with access to such a spot especially when it's in a private parking structure, so I could see developers trying to get out of it and really fighting it.

Communauto has a three-vehicle station at Cameron and King, literally metres away. They could probably put another three in at that location, and between that and the Kitchener Market Ion stop (to say nothing of being less than a ten-minute walk from nearly everything an urban resident could want or need), parking is almost a moot point

You're totally right, that's why I included my disclaimer that my question wasn't related to this project. I was just piggybacking off of the discussion because the topic of "parking free residences" was relevant. 

Like, theoretically in 100 years if all buildings in MTSAs have been replaced and have zero parking, where would the car-shares go? Just a dumb thought experiment rather than a serious question!