City Council of Guelph, ON votes 10-3 against Mayor's motion to eliminate parking minimums; votes to study option instead.
City Council of Guelph, ON votes 10-3 against Mayor's motion to eliminate parking minimums; votes to study option instead.
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Eliminate minimum parking requirements, but do so by changing requirement to recommendation. Developers can use it as a frame of reference if needed, but won't need to apply for a variance if they come up short.
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The trick then is at the design review stage builders are given an infinite list of guidelines that are ambiguously required, resulting in multi-year back-and-forth about whether or not they're necessary, and now everybody's homeless because nobody can build.
This is not hypothetical.
I downloaded and tooted this video of Mark Richardson of Housing Now Toronto, an Affordable Housing builder, complaining about exactly this problem:
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Classic idiot council. Let's waste 5 years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars on a report thats already been written 6 times for other similar sizes cities that will tell us that we need to do it and increase funding for public transit to accommodate those who can't drive.