This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]
Making space for storing large metal boxes is no longer mandatory.
@makyo@kresten The “data” used to create most residential parking mandates was collected in car-dependent suburban areas and is completely inappropriate for application to dense urban apartment buildings near transit where many residents don’t own cars. Eliminating the costly mandate to construct parking that often goes unused on valuable land only restores choice. A developer isn’t prohibited from building as much parking as their market research tells them they can profitably sell or lease.
@makyo @kresten The “data” used to create most residential parking mandates was collected in car-dependent suburban areas and is completely inappropriate for application to dense urban apartment buildings near transit where many residents don’t own cars. Eliminating the costly mandate to construct parking that often goes unused on valuable land only restores choice. A developer isn’t prohibited from building as much parking as their market research tells them they can profitably sell or lease.