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I think even people advocating for required parking would concede that it adds to construction costs and reduces the total amount of housing available—but they’d presumably argue that there are other benefits offsetting those negative effects. This chart says nothing about what those benefits might be or whether the tradeoffs are worth it.
Yeah. There are a few other differences between California and Minnesota other than “are you allowed to say ‘lol good luck and fuck you’ before unleashing hundreds of drivers to gobble up all the street parking with no analysis of whether that will lead to a shortage of parking for anyone, externalizing all the costs onto some other hapless bastard and making life worse for everyone?’”
Those who build apartments have a good idea how much parking is needed. They have incentive to figure it out because while it costs money to build parking it costs them when someone who wants parking decides to rent elsewhere where they can find it. Getting this balance right needs to be figured out for each block though, and so the city is too big to have a code.
As you point out, it costs money to build parking, but externalizing that cost is completely free. Since there is no block-by-block governmental structure that can enact regulations to stop people externalizing the costs individually, and the outcome of no one ever having any parking unless they pay to rent a space really isn't ideal, I think having the city make parking zones and be aware of the problems and try to do something about them is a pretty acceptable substitute.