Huge oversupply in parking stalls in Metro Vancouver's apartment buildings: study

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Originally Posted by Kisai

Global News had an news item on this.

My view on this, is that it's smoke and mirrors.

There is no over-supply. There is no shortage. All Condos and Apartments need at least 1 parking space. Retired seniors do not have, or need two vehicles, but families might. So it's not up to the city to decide how much parking is necessary, and I certainly would throw any developer out who proposes a building design with less than 1 parking spot per unit.

The ideal situation is that each unit in a tower would have "2 parking spaces" and if a parking space is not needed, they can convert that space into a parkade "storage unit", and the storage unit trailer must be movable.

As it is, you can not fit anything like an RV in a parking garage. The one time I parked a moving van (not a cube van) in the underground parking garage at the condo I rented, the van barely cleared the gate, and it struck something that was hanging from the underground garage's ceiling.

If anything, each parking space should have a 30A outlet to use the car's own charging equipment, and the building should have 6 DC fast-charger spaces that anyone in the building (guests, and delivery vehicles included) can use. That enables the option of ride-sharing vehicles to be shared or rented.

My preferred system is when the Strata rents out stalls to Owners. Then you have a shared supply where the price is raised/lowered so that limited supply is not an issue with the money going to benefit all Owners. That way if you suddenly go from 1 car to 2 or vice-versa your not needlessly inconvenienced.