Jasper City Council endorses land-use policy changes but will require parking for all new residential development
Jasper City Council endorses land-use policy changes but will require parking for all new residential development
Jasper council endorses land-use policy changes but keeping parking requirements
“To try and build things that involve limited parking or restricted parking or reduced parking makes absolutely no sense to me,” Laurenson said.
This is infuriating to read... :(
There is a lot of research showing mandatory parking actually drives housing prices up:
https://www.vtpi.org/park-hou.pdf
Basically, Jasper is making it illegal ❌ to build an apartment/home without parking 🅿️.
In other words, new home buyers are indirectly forced to pay for parking. Even if they are 100% okay with buying an affordable home/apartment that doesn't including parking.
Basically, mandatory parking requirements forces people to pay for the cost of car ownership, even if they just want a roof over their head.
Mandatory parking is one of the many reasons why Los Angeles housing is so expensive: