Unplanned Vacancies

Thoughts on minimum parking requirements

You may or may not know what the term “parking minimums” refers to. (Though if you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you do.) It’s a shorthand for regulations—maybe not in the zoning code per se, but part of the overall land-use regime—that mandate a certain number of parking spaces for a home, or, for commercial or retail space, a certain number…