It's two-fold: lots of parking, and lack of good alternatives. If we just reduce parking requirements, but don't provide safe, reliable alternatives (eg quality public transit and bike lanes), you get angry drivers and sad (or dead) cyclists.
absolutely - my hope is that businesses would rather push for public transit rather than buy more land and slather it with hot asphalt, if given the choice.
Of course they would! Public transit funded by the taxpayer is always going to be cheaper than privately funding parking. It would be a beautiful way to align interests to get business owners siding with urbanists to finally get more transit built.
There a lot of bad zoning laws in the usa, check your local laws to see how bad it is where you live
Houstons terrible, we have "no zoning" laws, but a mishmash of rules where we get the worst of both worlds.
Rollie is great, though it sorta seems like meat is his blind spot
He went Tim Robinson mode.
Oh shit... I saw the thumbnail and got excited. I love this guy.
Shout out to Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/books/review/paved-paradise-henry-grabar.html
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