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Re:American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage by 8bitsrule on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:47PM (#17532805)
Here in the US, some city developers are building apartment buildings - with dozens of units - which provide NO parking for the tenants ... let alone any potential guests. To me this is equally puzzling.

Reasoning leadership is a necessary part of city ecology. Rewarding complainers (hello Pavlov) is not a reasoned solution.

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Re:American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage by smileysteve on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:16PM (#17533058)
The lack of parking may be an effort to solve a chicken and the egg problem. While some zoning restrictions call for parking per unit, some high traffic areas are calling for less parking per unit.

If everybody is expected to have a car then pedestrians never develop, local businesses don't thrive, class mobility is it's highest.

By limiting parking, or at least making it ala carte, residents and businesses consider their location proximity to eachother.

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