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Originally Posted by 81MC
The thing with inner city parking - when most of the homes, and when many were bought, the areas were zoned for single family. They were purchased as a part of community of single family homes.
When you open up the entire neighbourhood to multi family, and there is several times more vehicles in the sale space, it fundamentally changes the neighbourhood.
The City is already actively looking to remove parking stall requirements for businesses. Yeah, it’s a risk you take and the city moves in and yada yada yada.
But I really don’t think it’s fair to tell the lady who bought a house in 1980 or the family in 2001 that the nearest parking for their home might be several blocks away, because there’s multi-unit residence on the corner and a Starbucks down the road.
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This is exactly what we should be telling them.
The inner city residents like to blame the burbs for sprawl but then get angry that they can’t park in front of their house. Properties should accommodate parking if their is demand on on street parking should be charged at market rate.
Everyone should read the high cost of free parking
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...f_Free_Parking
If parking was charged at market rate in front of residential houses it would drive down inner city property values by that amount allowing those that choose to go car free a more economic option. Instead we give away a public resource to a private owner and reserve it for them.