“It’s not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!”

If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

  • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I agree that parking minimums are criminal, but get this AI generated slop off my feed

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    29 days ago

    It’s really funny how conservatives, who are supposed to be pro free market, anti governmental overreach support parking minimums - a concept that clearly is an example of governmental overreach.

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      28 days ago

      Don’t confuse opportunistic conservatives with dogmatic libertarians. They form a coalition most of the time, but conservatives don’t just sell the gun, they use it when they feel threatened in their wealth power.

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        28 days ago

        you didn’t make a distinction, dogmatic libertarians will happily shoot you to protect their money, fuck they will do it faster than the conservative, these fuckers wait for the day they get to go mad max

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    28 days ago

    There is a ballot measure in Eureka California right now, measure F, in which a local multimillionaire is fighting to keep parking spaces, and stop housing from being built instead.

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    28 days ago

    I agree, fuck cars, but cars won’t disappear and be banned overnight. Even if we begin getting rid of cars one policy at a time, parking will still be a requirement. I live in a country without any parking requirement laws (no laws at all really), and the roads are uhh… interesting. Even nicer areas have roads that feel like slums because everyone is parked all over the street.

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      28 days ago

      Nothing is preventing a business from building parking spaces though. It’s just getting rid of the requirement to do so. It’s essentially a free-market approach.

      I think there are bigger issues wherever you are, in that there doesn’t seem to be (enforced) parking laws. I see this pretty frequently in the Balkans, for instance.

      The issue is basically that a lot of places people have this idea that, just because they own a car, they are entitled to a cheap/free place to park it. That type of incentive just leads to more and more people buying cars (and expecting a cheap place to park them) so it just makes the problem worse.

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      28 days ago

      dude, you really should do some introspection if roadside parking makes something look like a slum to you.

      in this case, you might be part of the problem

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        27 days ago

        RoadSIDE parking is chill. Middle of the road, all over the road, motorcycles zipping in between parked cars, cars parked on the little sidewalks we have in my country. I’ve visited actual slums in the Middle East: they feel similar.

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          29 days ago

          Underground spots are roughly 20 to 50 thousand dollars each. Surface lots are only a few thousand per spot.

          Do you want to invest in my coffee shop idea? I need a few million dollars to build the required parking.

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            29 days ago

            It’s hard to think beyond the individualistic businesses oriented thinking. I see you, it’s ok.

            But I was thinking about public parking spaces.

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      29 days ago

      Nothing. Build it if you want, but parking minimums are anti-people and city decaying laws.

      • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        The point is, parking minimums should include area maximum. But yeah it seems they are especially designed to be awefull…