Boston reduced parking requirements for affordable housing developments in 2021. | Kit Leong / Shutterstock
The Boston City Council held a meeting to discuss eliminating minimum parking requirements in an effort to more closely align development with modern parking needs and reduce the cost of building new housing.
As Christian MilNeil explains in Streetsblog Mass, Boston’s outdated parking rules mean the city approves thousands of largely unneeded new parking spots every year. “Frequently, the number of new parking spaces exceeds the number of new apartments and homes that developers build within the city limits – an imbalance of investment and real estate that exacerbates the city’s housing shortage and congestion problems.”…