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Originally Posted by Crawford
I actually don't think this will change much of anything, from a functional perspective. LA is a market where attached 1:1 parking is necessary.
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This is binary thinking. The world isn't binary.
You can generalize that LA is car-oriented. But like any city it's also full of exceptions to the norm. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of households in greater LA that don't have cars, many of which could afford them. Even a lot of people who currently have cars might like to live closer to work and ditch the cars, spurred by much lower prices.
The legislation would make it possible for a building to have double the units even if it's basically impossible to build double the parking. Absolutely a lot of developers (sooner or later) will go for it.
That little lot where parking and curb cuts are geometrically difficult? With the legislation it'll be redevelopable. You might get 50 units where none would have happened otherwise.
Some people are acting like this is a new thing. It's not. San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, New York, and others routinely build with little or no parking, even though the typical resident of each (minus Manhattan) has a car.
A lesson from how this stuff actually works: A building doesn't need to appeal to everybody...just the people who will actually live there.