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The latest bad news from the bad folks that generally swarm around SFSOS want to force builders of residential projects to build MORE parking. They also want to penalize builders who build less, even if the project is on a transit-rich corridor. This is city planning at it’s worst, in fact it’s not planning, it’s pure stupidity and greed, qualities that seem to be rife in Newsom’s administration.
Everyone who has minimal planning knowledge knows that building more parking attracts more cars, and more cars mean more car trips, more congestion, slower transit, more dangerous streets for pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s the same theory that transportation planners have discovered about freeway congestion: You can never build enough lanes.
The story they will toss at you in their "Neighborhood Parking" measure is that more parking takes more cars off the street, but this is simply false. It puts more traffic on the street. Also, they’ll argue that small business needs parking, but it truth, what helps neighborhood business the most is density and foot traffic.
This measure, headed for the November ballot, is the most anti-social, wrongheaded bit of greed-driven blanket planning to pop up in years. Wouldn’t it be great if some of these slimeballs actually gave a damn about the city?
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