General Parking Discussion

[keita]

Here’s the city council documents, but thanks for finding a much more readable summary! I’m with you on the mixed feelings, too.

I agree about parking minimums, though. It also makes it all too easy to encourage redundant parking spots to be built around neighboring developments, not to mention the incentives for making people even more car-dependent (rather than truly choosing to drive).

One interesting thing, though: the article says Stormie Forte’s the lone dissenting vote.

@The N&O article

Forte said she would worry about low-income residents who need a car or have frequent visitors like an in-care nurse. "We have to be mindful that we are being inclusive of everybody across the economic spectrum, not just the people who can afford to walk and bike,” she said. […]

“If we remove parking minimums and there is an overflow issue, then we will have to figure out how to handle it,” [councilmember Jonathan] Melton said. “But we are not there.”

Next city staff will draft a text change for the Planning Commission and a final vote by the Raleigh City Council.