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Los Angeles Council Committee Approves Step toward Eliminating Parking Requirements (la.streetsblog.org)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I assume this is about eliminating car parking requirements.

What about changing the parking requirements to be vehicle agnostic? Require construction projects to have parking for X people, rather than X cars, and consider the requirement met if it's a mix of bicycle parking, cargo bicycle parking, and car parking.

Bicycle parking takes less space. So that'd be an incentive to deliver projets with more bicycle parking, and should help reduce housing cost.

California may not be bicycle-friendly, but it has to start somewhere to be. A colleague of mine used to commute to work in that area using an electric bicycle, it helps cover more distance than a classic bicycle.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What about changing the parking requirements to be vehicle agnostic? Require construction projects to have parking for X people, rather than X cars, and consider the requirement met if it’s a mix of bicycle parking, cargo bicycle parking, and car parking.

    this is already how most parking mandates work (they're not for X amount of cars, they're obliged to have a set ratio of parking spaces to people), and changing it in this manner would almost certainly lead to no change because Los Angeles is extremely car-dependent and sprawling, and bicycling is only useful with actual pro-bike infrastructure which largely doesn't exist.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Requirements do specify a number of ~8x18 ft cat parking spaces. The regulation mention the space needed to park a car, rather than the word "car", to make things precise and consistent. See https://www.munistandards.com/ca/los-angles/parking-requirements/

    Good point on the overall transport infrastructure. Parking is necessary but not sufficient. Parking requirements and urban planning should work in pair to make the city human and bicycle-friendly. It won't happen overnight, so better start soon.

    Requiring car parking space around a building means there's more space between building, ie buildings are further part. So the parking requirement itself contribute to city sprawl.

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