How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing

Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing by ghaff on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:00AM (#12462251)

And in Seattle, given it's the current subject, if you head out to the mountains or wherever many weekends (as many people in Seattle are wont to do--indeed, it's why many people like Seattle), dealing with rental cars every weekend gets old after a while. And it's hard to put your kayak on that rental car.

This doesn't describe everyone but lots of people who live in cities like Seattle tend to want to get out of the city pretty regularly.

And to your broader point. Right. Developers can't build housing without parking on the grounds that people don't really need to have a car in Seattle. And good luck renting apartments that can't have a car registered to them. (Though people would just find a way to cheat I suppose.)

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Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing by OrwellianChild on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:54PM (#12466604)

There is plenty of legacy rental housing and owned homes/condos in the city that don't have parking and they are not facing record vacancy rates. Further, you can buy new homes in the city that do not include a parking space - several in my new complex did not include off-street parking. They were sold within a week of listing.

The fact that the city of Seattle has legislated a need for off-street parking in new construction does not mean that the market actually demands it in any way. Further, the skyrocketing price of housing in Seattle shows pretty clearly that folks will take whatever they can get, parking or no.

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