Boston Lawmakers Consider Eliminating Residential Parking Requirements
Boston city councilors are considering eliminating all parking requirements for residential developments in the latest step toward affordability, reported the Boston Business Journal. To date, more than 100 cities nationwide have already eliminated parking requirements for new development.
The city has already taken steps to reduce parking requirements. It reduced parking requirements for affordable housing in 2021 and allowed developers to build projects without parking if 60% or more residential units were income restricted.
While a vote on potentially eliminating parking is not imminent, the matter is expected to be taken up again early in the new year, Councilor Sharon Durkan, who chairs the City Council’s planning, development and transportation committee, told the Business Journal.
Durkan said parking requirements are outdated and a “one-size-fits-all mandate.” Eliminating those requirements, she said, would create flexibility for each project, reported the Business Journal.
“Boston has a housing crisis, not a parking crisis,” she said.
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