Matt Yglesias

8 Responses to “Parking Reform”

1. fletc3her Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm

   I would like to see these rules eased. Businesses should be free to choose how much parking they want to provide for their customers. Some business will choose to provide free parking in order to remain competitive. Other businesses may cater to primarily foot traffic and will prefer to rely on whatever onstreet parking is available.

   Similarly, the developer of an apartment building might rather devote the floors that would be allocated to parking to other amenities that the their non-car driving residents can make better use of. Someone who bikes to work might prefer to live in a building which provides more common space, larger apartment, or less expensive rents than an equivalent building with “free” parking.

   By mandating parking at residences, employers, and businesses we are essentially providing a subsidy to the automobile industry. The removal of these mandates is the end of a social engineering project which has driven the boom in automobile ownership and use in this country.

2. Nate Currie Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   Here in Portland, we believe in parking maximums. It looks like several cities have varying forms of maximums but here it’s an overall cap on the total number of spaces downtown.

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