If I had absolute political power, one of my first decrees would be an elimination of all parking requirements citywide and letting the chips fall where they may. Parking requirements are an unnatural amendment to what should be pure free market real estate development, like that which vigorously occurred before the age of the automobile. I wholeheartedly believe that zoning enforced parking requirements are a detrimental hindrance on the economic health of cities nationwide. If given more freedom to construct building envelopes without concern and cost of parking elements, means more potential profits and more real estate development. This obviously would be a significant boost to efforts to create a truly pedestrian and transit oriented urban environment. Another side effect could be something I've always believed in: the construction of stand alone car warehouses (garages) in industrially zoned areas, built for profit and removing long term automobile storage form residential and commercial areas where the real estate values makes accommodating automobiles a negative and impractical economic requirement.
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