If there is in adequate parking for an apartment building it disrupts the neighborhood. A developer does gain much money from needing to provide free parking. The incentive is to have more people paying rent and less land wasted on parking.

I don’t see how this is a problem unless people are saying you need to stop people from moving in because they want to store their private property on public land for free. Which is silly of course.

I have little idea what you are referring to. During snow removal the streets need to be clear.

I'm saying you have no more right to store your car on the street than I have to store a hot tub on the street.

Thanks I understand and agree. I suppose I read the other as well but it wasn't as clear.

The problem we have in the U.K. where most housing has a shortage of parking is people assume they have a right to store a car - typically one per adult too. If their property doesn’t have a space for a car they therefore assume that means there is a requirement for the public to provide the space. That view is by far the most common view, therefore vast quantities of public space is used to store people’s private possessions.

By removing the mandated private space for storing vehicles, you increase the public space used to store vehicles.