05-15-2016, 07:07 PM
(05-15-2016, 02:49 PM)darts Wrote: I wouldn't trust builders to make the best decision for the community and not what would make them the most money.
Ten-twenty years form now the people living their may really need the parking if they don't work nearby or have kids in hockey.
1) And it's good for the community to force them to create so much parking that it is given away for free, which incentivizes people to drive and cause traffic and carnage in our cities?
2) Build more parking so it's available in twenty years, really? People don't live that long in one place, and there's a variety of buildings available - some with more parking and some with less. There also, you know, the possibility of paying to park on another property or in another building's parking structure.
But more than that: Google, Apple, Uber, Lyft, etc. are spending billions of dollars so that your car is replaced by a shared driverless fleet. It may be ten years or it may be thirty years, but the long term parking needs are far lower than the present ones. So if you really want to be forward thinking, you wouldn't be forcing people to pay for parking they may or may not need right now.