Not a war on the car but definitely not smart either. This isn't about choice and lifestyle as much as it's about keeping development costs low for well connected and very profitable builders. It's not like this development in question is going to pass off major savings to buyers in exchange for massively reduced parking spaces.
The area right now is being developed with a ton of row homes, density, townhouses and other low level garbage from a parking and storage space perspective. The same thing is happening in the suburban communities with the lane homes, 25 foot lots and lack of parking options for visitors, trades people and owners.
You can't have policies in place where there is a lack of parking being developed where it can be, having residents and citizens have the right to buy whatever size cars they want (other countries don't) have a car centric city, garbage level transit and associated safety and not to expect problems like we have. Marda Loop streets are being littered with cars on the roads because of a lack of parking. What used to be single family homes with garages built for effectively boat sized cars, plus storage, is giving way to a single car garage that doesn't really fit what we are buying as citizens in 2026.
Do what other cities sometimes do and just ban car ownership from certain buildings, streets or areas. If car's aren't really allowed here and there, then you don't need this halfway pregnant strategy.
The same thing is happening in a lot of these communities with zero lot lines, lane homes and small front parking spaces. Investors, builders and landlords haven't built the garages, lack of parking up front, virtually no transit, thousands of homes needing to build means trades need parking and it becomes craziness with very low density or really anybody living there. The policies are insanity.
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