Our apartment building must have like 100 units, there are only ~10 parking spots and they charge $200/month for them. Everyone else parks in the streets. There’s like a 2 block radius with cars for our building. And now there are 3 new apartment buildings going up 1-2 blocks away, with similar or less parking. Parking is going to be a shitshow, and navigating the roads is tedious as the parking makes these single lane roads. And I imagine it’s especially annoying to the houses that predate all of these buildings.
But hopefully over time people will use the Max and bus more since they’re only a block away, or ride bikes. I think not having the minimums could slowly nudge people away from car use. And as less cars are on the road, other services are used more, more can be invested in the other services and infrastructure.
But it’s a difficult balance to maintain after a city is already so developed.
Who would own a car, then move into a building with no place to put it? The whole point of a big ‘ol complex with no parking is, here’s a place that’s cheaper because you don’t implicitly pay to store a vehicle, so come live here if you don’t have one ‘cus the transit is good. People are silly.
Our apartment building must have like 100 units, there are only ~10 parking spots and they charge $200/month for them. Everyone else parks in the streets. There’s like a 2 block radius with cars for our building. And now there are 3 new apartment buildings going up 1-2 blocks away, with similar or less parking. Parking is going to be a shitshow, and navigating the roads is tedious as the parking makes these single lane roads. And I imagine it’s especially annoying to the houses that predate all of these buildings.
But hopefully over time people will use the Max and bus more since they’re only a block away, or ride bikes. I think not having the minimums could slowly nudge people away from car use. And as less cars are on the road, other services are used more, more can be invested in the other services and infrastructure.
But it’s a difficult balance to maintain after a city is already so developed.
Who would own a car, then move into a building with no place to put it? The whole point of a big ‘ol complex with no parking is, here’s a place that’s cheaper because you don’t implicitly pay to store a vehicle, so come live here if you don’t have one ‘cus the transit is good. People are silly.