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RevolutionaryGlass0 t1_itwuuei wrote

Reply to comment by Candid- in Cambridge completely eliminated parking minimums yesterday!! by RealBurhanAzeem

Plenty of nice places in other countries don't have parking minimums and the citizens aren't asking for more "protection from selfish developers", at least when it comes to parking.

They're unnecessary and waste space that could instead be used to combat the housing crisis, or could be a shop, or literally anything else.

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Candid- t1_itwyid9 wrote

There are three recommended steps to solve this problem:

Remove off-street parking requirements. Developers and businesses can then decide how many parking spaces to provide for their customers. Charge the right prices for on-street parking. The right prices are the lowest prices that will leave one or two open spaces on each block, so there will be no parking shortages. Spend the parking revenue to improve public services on the metered streets. If everybody sees their meter money at work, the new public services can make demand-based prices for on-street parking politically popular.

Claiming success after just the first one is potentially problematic…

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RevolutionaryGlass0 t1_itwywmb wrote

I agree with that, removing parking is just the first step, it's important the council then uses the extra money and space wisely.

>Claiming success after just the first one is potentially problematic…

But when it comes to this, the US has had problems with urban planning in most places for decades, Cambridge is the first in the state to remove parking minimums. It's understandable people are celebrating progress.

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