Chicago's vote to totally eliminate parking mandates near train stations & bus routes is a great response to our city's housing crisis and traffic woes - Streetsblog Chicago
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This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]

Making space for storing large metal boxes is no longer mandatory.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I don’t get why laws like that are a thing at all. This is a near perfect example of something better sorted out by the free market instead of government regulation. Some people want a house or apartment with a parking spot, other people don’t need it, so a free market system ought to cause both kinds of housing to be built as there is demand.