• grue@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Electric cars are still cars, and therefore do fuck-all to fix the real problem of excessive use of land for parking lots, low-density zoning, and lack of walkability.

    The only way to have healthy and sustainable (ecologically, financially, or otherwise) communities is to fix the zoning code so that folks don't need to drive in the first place.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Oh man when almost everything was remote my commute was so nice. 12 miles in 15 - 17 minutes instead of almost double that everyday.

        Unfortunately I operate a forklift so I have to be there in person but damn was it super nice.

        Currently I'm trying to encourage and raise support for more bike infrastructure locally so it's an actually viable option intead of it's currently not so viable state.

      • grue@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Maximums aren't necessarily the problem, since developers are incentivized by market forces not to build more parking than necessary.

        The problem is parking minimums, which are based on numbers pulled out of somebody's ass 80 years ago and (to the extent they correlated with anything at all) tend to be closer to the maximum that could ever conceivably be needed (think "Black Friday at a shopping center") more than anything else!

          • grue@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            We are the lobbyists. For example, my city is currently doing this, so it's up to people like me to show up at the meetings and demand changes like that. You can do the same in your city or county by talking to your local political rep, even when they aren't doing a wholesale rewrite like they are here.