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Old Posted Oct 26, 2015, 6:07 PM
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If you believe that going car-free has the momentum and is the way of the future, then why would we insist on investing in large amounts of parking in brand new buildings that will be around at least a good 50-100 years? That's not just letting things run a natural course, it's actively reinforcing the status quo. I'm sure there are plenty of existing buildings with parking for people who wish to move downtown and continue focusing their lives around the car. Making the effort to include automobile provisions in new developments isn't being neutral, because if parking spaces are automatically built and included in the price of the unit, then the fact that the new condo owner will already have been forced to invest that money in order to buy the condo and has the parking space there ready to use encourages them to use it.
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