30.00% - Induced demand is real — build a freeway lane and traffic fills it, build a parking garage and cars materialize. Adding parking capacity encourages more driving, not less.
27.50% - The denser a city, the more efficiently it functions — more people sharing infrastructure and public space is how cities create value; sprawl undermines that logic.
22.50% - Sanitation at encampments is better than nothing, but it doesn't solve the problem. Without shelter beds, service coordination, and mental health support, you're managing a crisis you should be ending.
20.00% - Parking minimums don't solve on-street parking shortages — they produce off-street parking that eats building footprints, raises rents, and puts more cars on the street.
Parking minimums force buildings to include more parking than the market would provide.
21.21% - Parking is not a public entitlement — free or subsidized parking means someone else is paying for a use of space with a real cost, and that subsidy shapes how cities develop.
18.18% - Mass transit works when people ride it — encourage ridership with good service and reasonable fares, not coercion or punitive car policy.
18.18% - Induced demand is real — build a freeway lane and traffic fills it, build a parking garage and cars materialize. Adding parking capacity encourages more driving, not less.
18.18% - Parking minimums make non-drivers subsidize car infrastructure in their rent — people pay for parking they'll never use because the building was required to include it.
12.12% - Parking minimums don't solve on-street parking shortages — they produce off-street parking that eats building footprints, raises rents, and puts more cars on the street.
12.12% - Roads, parking lots, and garages consume 30 to 50 percent of urban land in most American cities — car infrastructure is our most expensive land use.
50.00% - Parking minimums force buildings to include more parking than the market would provide.
50.00% - Parking minimums force buildings to include more parking than the market wants, raising costs.
0.00% - “Parking minimums” are bad policy.
50.00% - Parking mandates
