02-19-2019, 09:15 PM
(02-19-2019, 09:09 PM)jamincan Wrote:(02-19-2019, 06:26 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: 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.
It's not really. Once something is built, we generally have to live with the consequences of it for a long time afterward.
The owners of the property have to live with it. Maybe they fix it by buying a nearby vacant lot for parking, maybe they knock down the last store in the strip mall for parking, maybe they change the use of the property to something with less parking demand. Regardless, it’s their problem to fix, just as it would be Zehr’s problem to fix if they didn’t install enough refrigeration capacity and needed to have a renovation to put it in later. In a free society, people will make mistakes, and sometimes they just need to figure it out for themselves. Right now we require everybody to make the opposite mistake. Much better to have some people screw up than everybody. We can’t prevent some properties from being poorly designed anyhow. What’s so special about parking that we think we can tell the owners the right amount?