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Grattan Institute report calls for abolition of parking minimum requirements across Australia (www.abc.net.au)
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The Grattan Institute report found up to 40 per cent of car parks were left empty each night in capital city apartments.

Australia is wasting more than $1 billion each year building off-street car parks that end up unused and unwanted, a Grattan Institute report has found.

Parking minimums add $62,000 to the price tag of a two-bedroom Melbourne apartment, $113,000 to one in Brisbane, $137,000 in Perth, and $95,000 in Adelaide.

The report, released tonight, recommends scrapping rules that force developers to include a minimum number of car park spaces when building housing.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The authors recommend "unbundling" car parking spaces so that they can be bought or rented separately from a unit.

this would be perfect👌

provides a new stream of income to strata as well. maybe dip shits will be less inclined to leave their car's in the visitor and disabled spaces if they can just rent their own/another.

i think the politics is mostly around local nimbys that see free on street parking as theirs and don't want to share with filthy apartment dwelling scum.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    We also should be doing transport centric development - plenty of people who live in apartments near public transport can live car-free.

    As much as I think it won't be handled terribly well because we've done little to reign in property developers building crap places, the Vic government's policy of train and tram activity centres makes a bunch of sense compared to continually expanding our city.

    I've previously lived in apartment where I had a car space, and it mostly went to waste because I didn't have a car - and never plan to. I can just rent one whenever I actually need one, which is practically never.

    The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving.

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