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And yet we put bus stops 300 feet apart because otherwise it's too far to walk.

The idea that, [b]if you make parking hard[/b], people will switch to bikes or scooters or whatever from cars is just nutty. No one is going to do that. They'll just go elsewhere. All these kinds of projects do is just change the demographics of who lives there. People with kids or who otherwise need cars go elsewhere and people who don't need cars (invariably, childless white people in their 20s and 30s) will come in. [/quote]

The idea for this bill is simply to not require developers to provide parking for housing near Metro stations. Developers would still be free to choose to provide parking. People would still be free to choose not to live somewhere without parking.

And actually, there is plenty of evidence that people with cars do, indeed, choose to use non-car transportation when it's more difficult or expensive to park, but choose to drive when it's easy and cheap to park.[/quote]

The bill should provide that if parking-lite or parking less developments are built, (1) the development will get no zoned street parking rights and (2) the developer shall be required to pass along the cost savings of not providing off street parking in the form of lower rents or unit purchase prices.  Otherwise the bill is simply a gift to developers.[/quote]

We should also have a law that if you have a garage, you should not be allowed to park on the street - it's double-dipping! [/quote]

Should a developer be able to add a 200 unit complex without parking and simply add all of those additional vehicles to nearby streets (that may already be above capacity)?  And for anyone who claims that this would be unfair to all of the new residents (who won't need parking because they'll take public transit), won't they be getting an offsetting benefit in cheaper prices from the savings that the developer passes along to them?  [/quote]

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