Why parking minimums almost destroyed my town and how we repealed them (2017)
Every business would prefer to have customers swipe parking provided by every other business. That way, the other businesses pay the cost of land for parking. It's a freeloader problem. Parking minimums exist to fix this.<p>You don't need parking minimums in the middle of nowhere, with businesses too far apart for swiping each other's parking spaces.<p>Customers really do go elsewhere if there are no spaces, but a business can't affordably provide the spaces if they will mostly be swiped by customers of other businesses.