VIA ZONING REFORM
Aaron Shroyer, senior advisor with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development & Research, said cities should eliminate minimum parking requirements, which often mandate more parking spaces than the market requires.
Studies have shown that parking spaces in a garage
can add $30,000 or more to the price of a unit.
“I’m
not the first person to say this, but our focus should be on building
affordable housing for people and not for cars,” he said, noting that
jurisdictions that do away with parking requirements often see more housing
units on a development site.
In
the single-family realm, Shroyer suggests removing something that is
omnipresent in local zoning codes — minimum lot sizes.
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