“Minimum parking requirements increase the supply and reduce the price – but not the cost – of parking. As UCLA urban planning professor and parking guru Donald Shoup explained in his masterpiece, “ The High Cost of Free Parking.” In the U.S., we have eight parking spaces for every vehicle driven and have created 1000 square feet of parking for every car on the road, but only 800 square feet of housing for each human. Translation: AB 1401, which would have ended parking mandates in certain new construction, will not advance this year. Update, August 26, 2021: The Senate Appropriations Committee declined to take this bill out of the suspense file.
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