• azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    My city’s downtown core is about 25% car storage space. The latest wave of office space closures is being blamed on not having enough parking for the workers.

  • hannes3120@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    TF is a parking minimum?

    If a business decides that it doesn’t need parking spots shouldn’t that in theory result in less customers and therefore be a purely capitalist business decision?

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Parking minimums are legal requirements on the minimum number of parking spaces businesses and housing are allowed to have. The thing is these laws were developed using shoddy pseudoscience, are extremely arbitrary, and developed with maximum (rather than typical) usage in mind, meaning many developments have oversized parking lots, wasting valuable land. Further, old buildings that predate the parking minimums (and thus don’t have legally sufficient parking) can’t renovate or change usage without being legally required to build new parking, often by buying up a neighboring building and demolishing it to build a parking lot. This exact thing is why so many dense American and Canadian downtowns got bulldozed and turned into parking lots, like in the images below:

      Atlanta

      Tulsa

      Kansas City

      For more in-depth information on the insanity and idiocy that are parking minimums, see this video: https://youtu.be/OUNXFHpUhu8?si=KQbU00UPKw5GeNhQ