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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

. if there is a residential building with parking at ground level, but parking is only for residents, that won’t help me if I’m driving in and looking for street parking.

Sure it will! Think of all of those residents who are now not taking up a spot on the street.

But yes there are tradeoffs when accomidating everyone. Want to live downtown? Might need to park your car at a municiple garage at the edge (i saw this in spain alot). Medium density after that maybe shared driveways (nyc has a lot of these, 1 driveway for all the houses on one side of the block), and finally light density single family homes. The trick with this though is not to make any of these zones toooo large. Should be able to walk from light to downtown in < 30 min. Cluster these together with larger roads between them.

Its unfortunate how much was built soley with cars in mind, but i wouldnt want to live the opposite either.