“It’s not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!”

If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

  • menemen
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    17 hours ago

    From Germany: huh? Quite common around here and I am sure in other european countries as well, despite having different city building concepts than the US. Lately it is slowly being replaced by bike infrastructure demands (and there was always the public transport demands), but it still exists.

    • amelia@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      17 hours ago

      I’m from Germany too. Is it really?! I had never heard of that. It can’t be a thing inside cities though, can it? I honestly can’t even think of a place where it would make any sense. Surely shops that are located outside dense urban areas would try to make sure they have enough parking space anyway.

      • menemen
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        16 hours ago

        It is naturally very complicated in Germany, it is Germany after all. Some Bundesländer have globale Vorgaben, others leave it to the Kommunen. But it is normally part of a Bebauungsplan, also in cities. It is oftentimes a flexible concept though. Here a little start into the toppic.

      • Flipper@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        16 hours ago

        Yes it’s true. Where I live there is even parking space allocated for storage space. For each 100m² one parking space. Which is truly a ridiculous requirement.

        • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          15 hours ago

          This is most likely for businesses, not sure about your exact communal regulations, but it should really be something like 1 per 100m² or 1 per 3 employees. Not that ridiculous. There’s also minimum bicycle parking requirements BTW.