Banning Drive Thrus

[danbrotherston]

People get concerned about lack of parking but it's often not a thing in reality. Parking requirements are kind of set through inertia (and sometimes for once-a-year peak demand) and there are very few places that don't have enough parking. Not 0, but very few.

And weirdly, parking is one of the few things required to be provided in such quantities that the market price is zero.

Almost anything else needed for a business is up to the business owner. For example, a restaurant that didn’t have enough cutlery would get bad reviews and word of mouth when its customers talked about how they had to eat spaghetti with their fingers or whatever. Where are the cutlery minimums? Only parking is required to be provided in certain quantities. Strangely, parking is very expensive to provide; so the excess parking required by zoning is a real drag on the economy, in a way that a requirement for a restaurant to have one fork per square foot would not be.

The only good parking minimum is a dead parking minimum. The Province should have abolished parking minima province-wide in the Places to Grow Act.

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