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    "text": "Hand going up. Wearing my bias on my sleeve, I'd rather put funding into getting more people access to e-cargo bikes.\n\nMaybe it's a Toronto thing, but with parking minimums no longer a factor for new developments here, we're transforming spaces above ground usually used for cars to better uses.",
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          "alt": "Housing Affordability\n\n• Removing parking\nminimums supports costefficient forms of\ndevelopment.\n• Amendments will\nstreamline the\ndevelopment process.\n• Minimum parking\nrequirements are\ninequitable. ",
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          "alt": "On-Street Parking Demand\n\n•\t The Official Plan directs development to\nprovide adequate parking on-site.\n•\t Recommend normalizing practice of excluding\nusers of new development from participating in\non-street permit parking programs.\n•\t Incorporating this as normal practice in\ndevelopment review process reduces\nuncertainty ",
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          "alt": "How getting rid of mandatory parking minimums is helping the climate\nCars in underground parking lot\nMore and more cities in North America are removing rules that require developers to build a certain amount of parking, even if it's not wanted or needed. (lightpoet/Shutterstock)\nLast October, I was sitting on a streetcar, stopped at a light on Queen Street East in Toronto, when something caught my eye. It was a city notice about a proposed 60-storey condominium with 701 residences that would have parking for 701 bicycles — and just nine cars.",
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          "alt": "I was surprised over just how few spaces there were for cars. Nine? For more than 700 units? I told my colleague Emily Chung, who wasn't surprised at all. She explained that, until recently, the City of Toronto had mandatory parking minimums, where buildings were required to have a certain number of parking spaces depending on their size.\n\nIt turns out that more and more cities in North America are removing these minimums. And the good news is that it's great for the climate and the environment. \n\nLet's talk about parking when it comes to condominiums & apartment buildings rather than above-ground parking for malls and homes, since big cities are continually building up rather than out.\n\nA 2022 study for the City of Vancouver estimated that a decrease of 10 underground parking spaces could reduce CO2 emissions between 50 tonnes to as high as 8,500 tonnes. \n\nThey also noted that the minimum impact of constructing one parking space is almost equal to one year of the operation of a car, and the maximum impact is close to the operation of a car for close to 19 years.\n\nThat's a lot of CO2 emissions.\n\n\"For each level of parking you remove, you can reduce the [greenhouse gas emissions] of a building by about 15 per cent,\" said Shoshanna Saxe, an associate professor at the University of Toronto's department of civil & mineral engineering and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure. \n\n\"The simplest, easiest thing you can do to make your building more sustainable is not have a whole bunch of underground parking.\"\n\nAnother study, by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) that was released in 2024, noted that the environmental impacts of constructing underground parking spaces are far-reaching, including the displacement of soil that is taken elsewhere and potentially passing on dangerous microorganisms, including e.coli.\n\nAnd removing the soil also means a larger carbon footprint as these trucks may need to drive hundreds of kilometres to dispose of it.",
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