@ElectRyanDorsey & @CCouncilSneed’s measure “would end parking minimums in the city, including a zoning code requirement that any conversion of a single-family home into two or more apartments demonstrate that off-street parking can be provided.”

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https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2020/08/30/pushback-on-parking-bill-prompts-debate-about-development-and-diversity/

Research shows that removing minimum parking laws reduces housing construction costs, resulting in lower rents.

If you care about people who struggle to make ends meet, you should agree that that’s a good thing.

2/ https://twitter.com/PatrickSiegman/status/1314761486544244737

Sadly, a few #Baltimore homeowners are clinging to minimum parking laws precisely BECAUSE they make housing expensive.

Their counterproposal retains minimum parking laws, to make it impossible to convert one large, expensive home into two smaller, more affordable homes.

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The proposal to keep minimum parking laws “’is racist, classist and isn’t backed by data,” K.C. Kelleher, a City Hall staffer who lives in one of the neighborhoods, charged on Twitter. ‘It’s not just an overreaction, it’s redlining with another name.’”

Yup.

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Never forget. For some, minimum parking laws aren’t about parking. They’re about segregation. They’re about using the power of law to keep people who have less from being able to live near them. They’re a deliberate effort to make housing expensive – and that’s wrong.

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