text: Joe Cortright is a broken recorrd.   The city has been listening to his dogma for years and ignores how badly things have turned out.
  
  Easing parking requirements is a present to developers.   People do not give up their cars- they just park further away and experience smash and grabs.
  
  If you look at the big picture- making tenants and the car insurance risk pool pick up the externalized costs of making tenants park ten blocks away- parking should be required.
  
  Remember that Charlie Hales is bitter about Portland- the early polls showed that Wheeler was gonna rush crush him.  He is allowing crust punks to run amok downtown and then siding with the developers over residents.   His motives are bad.