(2) NIMBYs will resist units without parking less fiercely than units with parking. Ha. Ha ha ha. Hah hah ha no. Attempting to build units with less parking causes NIMBYs to freak out about how all the new residents' cars will make the on-street parking situation worse (as seen in a small development near me, for example, when the developer tried to propose - as suggested by the city! - having only one parking space per unit). Unfortunately, even in a walk-to-mass-transit kind of neighborhood, cars are assumed.
(Now I'm wondering if the city could do something really weird, like agree that the residents of a particular building wouldn't get city parking permits, so that any cars they did own would have to be privately garaged in the city).
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Ha. Ha ha ha. Hah hah ha no. Attempting to build units with less parking causes NIMBYs to freak out about how all the new residents' cars will make the on-street parking situation worse (as seen in a small development near me, for example, when the developer tried to propose - as suggested by the city! - having only one parking space per unit). Unfortunately, even in a walk-to-mass-transit kind of neighborhood, cars are assumed.
(Now I'm wondering if the city could do something really weird, like agree that the residents of a particular building wouldn't get city parking permits, so that any cars they did own would have to be privately garaged in the city).