Thanks. I think there is some common ground and room for discussion. You want no parking in buildings and I don't see how so many cars can just fit on the street. Kits streets are already jammed with cars, so where do they go? You might wish no one had a car, but people have them. Don't you?
You say "revisit the BP when...", so sure, but there are a whole host of other reasons to pause and reconsider the way the Plan is designed. It should't be about one single building code adjustment.
It’s not just one code adjustment, it’s about the potential for that code adjustment to unlock quiet density across the whole city. I guess we’ll see on Wednesday when it goes back to Council.
I take a more extreme position: anything that reduces the use of cars is a plus for humanity
(climate change, pollution, land use, housing cost, accidents).
It's not easy I know for us to make the change.
So do real analysis and build the parking which is needed. Build less if it is found that many stalls sit empty, and if you think people should not have cars, then start with yourself and get rid of your car. Hard to take the comment seriously when you yourself continue to have one.
Plus, taking away the parking minimum, doesn’t mean that developers won’t still try to provide some parking. We are actually providing more now, since the parking minimum was taken away. The minimum rules just cause delays.
Commercial and office space as a priority, Along with keeping existing older store fronts. Towers with podiums in some cases… but the practice of using multifamily housing to “shield” single-family should be burned to the ground.
This is not an anachronism. I’m not sure if it was new west or Burnaby, but it was only a couple years ago that this language was included. The idea of protecting single-family from the city is very much embedded in every aspect of contemporary North American planning.
I don’t have a car. I rely exclusively on foot, bike, transit & occasional Modo. Save tonnes of money. I’m relatively high income .
if we didn’t require parking (at $80k-$200k/ space) in new developments, and gift public space to it for free, we’d have more affordable hsng and less car ownership…
Nope. People want cars. No evidence to suggest otherwise. I'm saying to study how much parking is truly needed and reduce accordingly because yes, there are some like you, but who are not. You only have to look around you or at the actual data.
Further point on this… you’re saying “people want X, so we should study how much they want if they don’t have to pay for it”.
I want an additional room for my home office. And a big tasty salmon twice a week. We should study how many feel same, and ensure we require enough free offices and salmon
Home offices and salmon have more socially beneficial externalities than parking. But we don’t require it be provided for free as a condition of building new housing, nor govt provide it. We let market decide.
Not everything is appropriate for market discipline. But parking definitely is.
That's like saying Disneyland gets loads of visitors so we should make our city like Disneyland. Venice is amazing, but not how people want or can live here. We are not going to change Vancouver into Venice or Disneyland. Reality does not support your wishes. Car ownership is trending up, not down.
The more we can make urban design in Vancouver similar to Venice or Disneyland over the next few decades, the better. It’d be quiet, beautiful and fun. We could take transit or walk everywhere. Other than the cornball characters and the lack of grit, Disneyland urbanism is better than here.
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I’m fine with new buildings, not having much parking given that all the old buildings still have it.
And there are so many owners not using their parking or garages.
(climate change, pollution, land use, housing cost, accidents).
It's not easy I know for us to make the change.
3 sides of a tower do not face arterial and they can also be set back. Most units are not subject to noticeable pollution or noise.
if we didn’t require parking (at $80k-$200k/ space) in new developments, and gift public space to it for free, we’d have more affordable hsng and less car ownership…
I want an additional room for my home office. And a big tasty salmon twice a week. We should study how many feel same, and ensure we require enough free offices and salmon
Not everything is appropriate for market discipline. But parking definitely is.