Classic idiot council. Let’s waste 5 years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars on a report thats already been written 6 times for other similar sizes cities that will tell us that we need to do it and increase funding for public transit to accommodate those who can’t drive.
Eliminate minimum parking requirements, but do so by changing requirement to recommendation. Developers can use it as a frame of reference if needed, but won’t need to apply for a variance if they come up short.
The trick then is at the design review stage builders are given an infinite list of guidelines that are ambiguously required, resulting in multi-year back-and-forth about whether or not they’re necessary, and now everybody’s homeless because nobody can build.
This is not hypothetical.
I downloaded and tooted this video of Mark Richardson of Housing Now Toronto, an Affordable Housing builder, complaining about exactly this problem:
