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"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.
Urban fabric is when everything’s a building, meaning you can’t go anywhere unless they’ve got the door open for you.
Are you proposing a society where we never leave our cars and every business is a drive thru? Even if you drive to a wal mart today, they still have to have the door open for you to shop there.
And our current urban fabric is everything is a road, you can't go anywhere unless you drive a car. Can't afford a car? Too young to drive? Have a health condition that prevents you from driving? Want to choose a car free life? Too bad.
Those lots are horribly inefficient, aisle-less parking would make more sense for businesses of that size
They may be horribly ineffecient but that seems to be the standard design. Plus compared to pretty much any other land use, even the most optimized surface level parking lot is an ineffecient use of land.
You're not wrong in the long term. But in the short term, people will park anywhere possible close to the shop, blocking everywhere near with cars.
Parking tickets
In this thread: A lot of misconceptions and more than a few poorly thought out comments.
Also in this thread: Identifying the need to restructure the current standard before car usage can be realistically reduced by large amounts.