If you want affordable housing, you can't require off-street parking

According to calculations from [Portland's] own contracted analysts, if off-street parking spaces are required in the city’s new “RM2” zone, then the most profitable thing for a landowner to build on one of these properties in inner Portland is 10 townhomes, each valued at $733,000, with an on-site garage.

But if off-street parking isn’t required, then the most profitable thing to build is a 32-unit mixed-income building, including 28 market-rate condos selling for an average of $280,000 and four below-market condos—potentially created in partnership with a community land trust like Portland’s Proud Ground—sold to households making no more than 60 percent of the area’s median income.

https://www.sightline.org/2019/10/02/in-mid-density-zones-portland-has-a-choice-garages-or-low-prices/


Yes, you can.  It just won't be the "most profitable" thing to build.  As long as it is required as a condition of construction (as I believe it is).


You can if the housing is centrally located within easy walk to essentials and in close proximity to a good mass transit system for longer trips.  Probably difficult bordering on impossible to achieve in our car-centric community.  Far easier to achieve in more urban areas where walking/mass transit is more the norm.  Challenge for us is whether we want to become a community where there is less focus on the family car and if so, how we get there.


Depends on the characteristics of the community where that housing is going.



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