SF has already removed their parking mandates since 2018 and also implemented a parking maximum

See https://parkingreform.org/mandates-map/city_detail/SanFrancisco_CA.html

I mean, in an ideal world, this is great.

I think it needs a followup to at least track, possibly tax, residents of apartments which lack parking who also own cars. In small numbers it's no big deal, but it could quickly get out of hand.

Hard no. Parking shouldn't be bound as a necessity to every real estate, but every car ownership (see Japan).

There of course is an argument to make sure there's enough parking per let's say square 100m for everyone who'd need it for their car (even more so if this free's up the damn road), but mandating an available car parking space for any real estate would go the wrong direction.

The idea is to remove free parking on the road side as well. Taking up space from the public like this shouldn't be free. The end goal is to reduce the numbers of cars, not to put them somewhere else.

That's how it played out in my neighborhood. The less space for cars on private property, the more cars left out on the street. The cars become a problem without even being used.

Just because parking isnt mandatory doesnt mean they wont build it. It will just match demand more closely.

Plenty of functional cities were built before parking was a thing. While they do have lots of on street parking, pre-1950s cities also have the best transit.

is it legal to randomly park on the side of the street in spain/barcelona? Here in sweden it's at least not something that would be tolerated en-masse.

No, please God don't make mandatory parking a part of real estate. Build one large garage per X blocks and get rid of cars as a primary means of transport. Cars are a blight on the land and far to expensive to be sustainable. We need better public transit everywhere in Germany (although I think it's quite good especially compared to the north America).

Trams, trains, and subways should be the future of Germany as they're far more cost effective and far more human centric.

Public transport in Barcelona is excellent

Public transport in Barcelona is great, and street parking for residents is also pretty affordable.

Barcelona has great public transit and quite a decent bike lane network. I have no idea why people use cars in Barcelona.

Parking on the roadside (outside the official parking spots, which you have to pay for) will usually get you a ticket or towed ... free public roadside parking is mostly a thing of the past in most densely-populated places, really ...

A lot of European apartment parking is just a designated street parking space anyway. I'm not sure if that's the case in Barcelona, but I see it often in the UK.

There is no way to get rid of cars without inconveniencing drivers, and they will have to be very inconvenienced.

Getting rid of parking is 100% the easiest way to get rid of cars. Maybe second easiest besides replacing roads with pedestrian walk ways.

I think this is fine

It means easier rules for housing in a city that's mostly friendly to public transit and biking, which should help with the rising housing cost Spain is dealing with.

If you live in barcelona you aren't expecting to need a car anyways.

unhappy that their parking isn’t convenient.

Oh no, not me, I'm perfectly fiiiine walking as far as necessary to get to my apartment from my parking space (says the people who are able to drive home in the middle of the day and park up for the night when everybody else is at work).

It's not just lack of convenience, it's behaviors: double parking, congestion, Oh I'm just going in for a second...

you could have just looked up barcelona on a map, you know. This comment feels like astroturfing.

That sounds like a welcome reduction in housing cost in an expensive, densely populated city with good public transportation

Since when is a parking spot a right? At least where I have lived so far, no apartment ever came with a guarantee for a parking spot, either you had to pay for a resident permit in your respective zone, or find a public spot, with free public parking (thankfully) becoming a rare occurrence these days ... very few buildings I ever lived in had a garage ...

The right to parking? That's up there with the right to free hand sanitizer as you enter a building.