Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia wants to get rid of rules requiring parking spots that are making the housing affordability crisis worse
Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and the former mayor of Long Beach, plans to introduce a bill early next week to ban minimum requirements for parking spaces near transit hubs, he said on Wednesday.
"We know that parking raises the cost of housing immensely," Garcia told Insider on Wednesday."We need to create cities and communities that are more walkable, that are more multimodal friendly." , a burgeoning alternative to Twitter that a handful of Democratic lawmakers have begun using. "I'm taking ideas!" wrote Garcia, adding that his staff"has no idea I'm naming bills on bluesky lol."Screenshot/bluesky
And the US has an astounding amount of parking. The US has an estimated three parking spots for every car,that parking requirements around transit hubs are particularly unnecessary and inequitable because many residents in those communities don't own cars. They rely on public transit, yet they face higher housing costs because valuable space in their communities is dedicated to parking.
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