San Diego Mayor proposes allowing some housing projects with no parking spaces
San Diego is tending toward car-free living anyway, so this is in line with that trend. Downtown we have scooters everywhere, as someone else mentioned. We have free public transit in various forms, for individuals and families alike.<p>Parking is generally not included in rent, that is a separate charge normally, so in essence it&#x27;s already &quot;no parking space&quot; and you&#x27;re just getting a better rate than outside, even when you park under&#x2F;beside where you live. You&#x27;re really _also_ getting security, not just parking. That&#x27;s the real issue, if you have a car downtown, which I do.<p>All this being said, parking is generally very difficult here compared to other places with less concentrated downtown environments; more in Little Italy than in the Gaslamp Quarter, and more difficult in Gaslamp versus East Village. But again, cars are becoming less of a thing, and people are adapting.<p>What I hear in the comments so far is a misunderstanding of what a metropolitan area is. It&#x27;s not designed to be the same as a suburban area. In the suburbs, you need &quot;large vehicle&quot; transportion, versus downtown where you need what&#x27;s called &quot;last mile&quot; ... like scooters. Any other people need to do their research and see we even have FRED which is _free rides_ ... so you could park somewhere that isn&#x27;t oppressively priced and get a free ride ( not even pay for an Uber&#x2F;Lyft or scooter or bike, etc ) and be totally fine.<p>It&#x27;s the problem of taking a suburban attitude into a downtown environment that&#x27;s causing people to miss out on the actual purpose of the space and the infrastructure we already have.