I was listening to a podcast about the city of Chicago and their parking fiasco and I got thinking about our building regulations especially concerning the requirements for parking in apartments and office buildings. First about Chicago for those of us who don’t live there, sold the rights for managing street parking to Morgan Chase in a deal that should last 75 years.
Now that we are on the same page, and building on the discussion about design of cities, how should cities proceed? Should it be the developer’s discretion how many parking spaces they provide or should the city make pronouncements on this?
Planners and architects have argued that part of the reason for traffic in city centres is because of inadequate terminal buildings- that’s lack of parking- and that the solution is to increase parking spaces. Maybe we should reduce the parking spaces and encourage mass transit.
Or what do you think?
Random thoughts 