01-11-2017, 09:28 AM
(01-11-2017, 02:25 AM)mpd618 Wrote: Aside from whether the change was bad, the council approval concedes the idea that near uptown, it is acceptable for people to purchase a brand new condo without parking. You could build a whole 55-unit condo with just those no-parking buyers from this building. (At what point can we dispense with this charade of minimum parking requirements?)
That's a very optimistic outlook- thanks for that. Yes, it's a good thing if we start building units without parking, and where better in the Region than here?
I just read an article the other day that Buffalo was getting rid of parking minimums. It claimed that it was the first city in the U.S. to do so city-wide (as opposed to just in specific districts). We should follow suit- at least for specific districts, but preferably everywhere. We don't need the distortions parking minimums create.