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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At new condos etc. meaning not providing parking spaces . How do people shop? Buy large items?  Get away to avoid a domestic abuser? He claims it costs less to not have parking spots so costs go down. Laughable [/quote]

It’s simple: Developers will get the county to build new parking garages at taxpayer expense. [/quote]

No need for that, there's already a ton of excess parking in the county.[/quote]

Where is this parking?

Because according to the language, they are going to include BRT stations as they would a transit center, which is silly.

There was Thrive 2050 with stated goal of increasing density.  Most of the density would increase near transit.  Oh, how convenient, we can just run a BRT line anywhere we want to claim mass transit and then increase density!  Most of this will take place in neighborhoods near what the new pedestrian master plan has designated as a “town center,” essentially larger intersections of neighborhoods with some commercial space.  I recommend that everyone read the new master plan, btw.

So, the end result is that they are going to use the intersection of all of these things to try to increase density via “upzoning” in these neighborhood town centers.  Now those new builds won’t even be required to have parking?  People that live near the BRT stations already have to deal with people parking in their neighborhoods to catch the bus…now you’ll have even more people creating traffic and parking issues once they’ve relaxed the parking requirements.

It all seems very sleazy the way they are staging it.  They can prove me wrong by removing the BRT language from this proposal.[/quote]

BRT literally is transit.

And again, this bill will not prohibit builders from building parking. It will simply no longer require builders to build parking.[/quote]

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