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Originally Posted by flamesfever

We build neighborhoods for people. However, as you know, Calgary is a very car oriented place (we like to drive), and many families have a multiple number of cars. If you cut the living area in half you decrease the available parking area per car.

If you have ever experienced a neighborhood, where they started allowing infills, it's a given that the street will be, from thereon, lined with vehicles along the front of the infills.

I wish I had the photos to show you, but at the end of our street they allowed just two infills on a 50 ft lot, and the parking changed the moment they started building, and has continued long after the infills were completed. It has negatively changed the entrance to our street. You now have to be much more careful when passing other cars.

I don't need photos, I can go step out and look at my own street --- as I said, I live in an inner city neighbourhood and pretty much my whole street is infills, so I'm very familiar with this.

Even with cars lining the streets and pretty much the entire street being infills on both sides I've never had a problem with parking.
As Bunk noted, people having to drive slower on a residential street is probably a good thing.

You don’t have guests? We have 4-6 people over to our house a couple times a month, and 10+ a half-dozen times a year. Not a problem at all for guests to find parking. That is not the case in denser neighbourhoods.

My guests have never had a problem finding parking. And even then, should we be developing our city so that everybody can find easy street parking the half a dozen times a year that we have 10+ guests over for a BBQ and screw the 359 other days of the year?

I'd venture a guess that 90% of my neighbours don't use their garage for their cars.

This is true, but I'm sure they'd find room in their garage if they couldn't find a parking spot on the street.