[rifung]

I can understand your point of view but I'm not sure this is a sufficiently good reason to mandate that requirement.

If you need a parking spot, you should make sure you rent an apartment that has one.

Having a law that each unit has parking just increases rent and traffic.

[jrace]

but then you must have a law that prohibits the renters from owning a car.

How do you enforce that?

[rifung]

> but then you must have a law that prohibits the renters from owning a car.

Sorry I'm not sure I follow?

[jrace]

Otherwise the occupant of the address could just purchase a car, but have nowhere to park it. Then they park on the street. Or take a previous occupants spot. Pretty soon you have cars taking up spaces that were not previously assigned to them causing a cascade of parking wars.

By preallocating a parking spot for each occupant you prevent this problem.

Just because the person did not think they needed a car when moving into the home does not mean they will never want to get a car.

perhaps a better solution is to make each residence come with a parking spot - that is essentially owned by the resident. Then if they do not need it they could rent it out until which time they do need it (if ever).

[rifung]

> Otherwise the occupant of the address could just purchase a car, but have nowhere to park it. Then they park on the street. Or take a previous occupants spot. Pretty soon you have cars taking up spaces that were not previously assigned to them causing a cascade of parking wars.

I'm not sure where you've lived but I've never seen this happen? I live in the US. I've seen multiple ways to prevent this.

People who don't have a parking spot shouldn't have access to the parking lot.

Even if you do have access you have to register your car, and any cars that were not registered will get a warning then either a ticket or towed.

Another solution is to just have assigned parking.

Parking on the street is fine if that's legal? I don't see the issue with that.

> perhaps a better solution is to make each residence come with a parking spot - that is essentially owned by the resident. Then if they do not need it they could rent it out until which time they do need it (if ever).

This creates incentives to get a car though. You have to do more work to not drive and it's possible you can't find a "tenant" for the parking spot.

[Xylakant]

Japan has that figured out, too: you can’t register a car unless you have proof of having a parking spot.