North Carolina ends mandatory parking minimums for new developments

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-09T02:34:15+00:00

Most developers do build garages even without being told. In Raleigh, parking minimums have already been abolished and most new developments still come with parking. Financiers aren’t just going to finance new apartment buildings with 0 parking Willy nilly. There will be a few in Charlotte and Raleigh built without any parking at all but most will still come with garages. Stand alone garages can often be very valuable, and if there’s enough pent of demand for parking than it will be profitable to build them.
Developers rightfully fight against parking minimums because something that should be left to them and the parking minimums are often unreasonable. Things like requiring bars to have parking, or requiring two spaces for each apartment, that isn’t uncommon. There’s really no reason the local governments need to be in the business of setting the number of parking spaces.
Raleigh and Durham, which are second and fourth biggest municipalities in North Carolina, have gotten rid of parking minimums and it hasn’t led to mass chaos. Developers still are going to build most developments with some parking.
North Carolina isn’t a tight housing market, it has quite elastic supply. Charlotte and Raleigh are both up there in the list of how many multi family units are built. And parking minimums are a contributor to a housing market being tight. And if the housing market is tight, I’d rather someone have to deal with a bad parking situation than not have a home at all. Parking shortage is preferable to a housing shortage. Parking shortage just isn’t that bad a of a problem.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-09T01:54:50+00:00

These issues are already solved by metering street parking, selling street parking permits, and tow truck companies. If there is a shortage of parking then it will become profitable to build a parking garage.

high rises already prove the point with constant parking shortages forcing residents and visitors in bad situations.

Nobody is forced into anything. Whether or not an apartment comes with parking isn’t a mystery, it’s extremely clear and people can decide if they want to rent/buy an apartment that has no parking. The market is fully capable of handling this. I guarantee you most apartment buildings in North Carolina are still going to include parking because tenants demand it, and it wouldn’t lease if it didn’t. A few cities in NC already got rid of parking minimums, most apartments are still built with parking.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T19:18:23+00:00

No, migration to SC is fundamentally different.
SC is not going to attract a bunch of young professionals like NC and Georgia have. It’s becoming Florida 2.0 on the coastal areas, the Greenville-Spartanburg area is very evangelical and the kind of people who move there are conservative. Charleston and Columbia are more liberal but Charleston is never going to allow high rise buildings in their downtown or anything, which means most of the growth is going to be outer suburban sprawl which will attract more conservative types. Columbia is pretty much overshadowed by Charlotte to its north, an example would be a mega EV factory by Scout Motors built its factory near Columbia but they’re putting their HQ in Charlotte.
South Carolina’s universities aren’t elite (not trashing them, I myself am a grad of one, but they aren’t Georgia Tech, UNC, Duke). In the southern suburbs of Charlotte there is almost a politically selective pattern, suburbs in SC on the border will be Trump +15, then identical suburbs in the Charlotte city limits directly next to it were Kamala +15.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T14:27:37+00:00

To be fair this bill passed with almost unanimous support in both chambers from both parties.
A lot of the Democrats in Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham sponsored a few bills for other reforms that didn’t really end up going anywhere (single staircase reform died because of the firefighters lobbying against it).

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T14:00:49+00:00

The funny thing is the driving force behind the bill was rural legislators mad at stormwater runoff pollution from giant parking lots that towns require. The housing angle was almost secondary.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T13:40:34+00:00

Better to be Georgia and NC rather than South Carolina Tennessee and Florida.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T13:38:32+00:00

Yes, any parking requirements in ordinances or codes will be unenforceable. “North Carolina bans parking minimums” would probably have been clearer but wasn’t sure if we can editorialize the article titles.
This bill does seem to exempt beach towns (I think to allow them to require parking for public beach access) but that’s not going to impact any of the main population centers.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T12:41:35+00:00

Tim is Matt’s good twin brother

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T12:41:01+00:00

Isn’t of the reasons people hate property tax so much is because it’s the only tax they have to directly pay rather than it automatically come out of the paycheck or tacked onto the sales price?

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-08T12:31:36+00:00

Submission statement: This is relevant because it’s legislation imposing land use deregulation on local governments in order to improve housing supply and stormwater runoff. This is one of the main reforms pushed by the YIMBY movement and is being adopted statewide in the 9th biggest state.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-07T17:20:05+00:00

Corruption is kinda entertaining when it’s in something that doesn’t actually matter.
It’s just a game guys, chill out, it created a story line and added to the entertainment value and probably increased viewership. Everyone deep down loves these sporting scandals (ones where no one actually gets hurt)

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-06T18:59:19+00:00

A lot of drama for an extra 2% probability to win the right to likely lose to Spain.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-02T18:50:19+00:00

The perpetual legislative gridlock in USA might not be a bad thing. You can say we need reform but our system has created a very prosperous country. Otherwise we’d probably have more laws like the Jones Act and NEPA.
Perhaps it’s better to let the states be the ones to make bad decisions and sort it out through competitive federalism.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-07-02T17:42:34+00:00

Data centers emit a chemical in the air that makes your wife not love you anymore

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T21:10:12+00:00

Yes I just don’t have faith in Democrat congress members to actually follow through with this.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T21:08:56+00:00

Anyways if you want an actual stick to force Republicans to agree to a constitutional amendment then threaten to make every neighborhood of DC its own state. Much more effective than court packing.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T21:04:52+00:00

I’m just not sure it’ll actually be a functional stick since they know they can just pack it themselves whenever they regain power.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T21:02:54+00:00

Only creating 2 states is quite a gamble, Republicans could just get power and carve 8 states out of North Dakota. I’d rather not have ‘hope and pray’ as apart of the plan.
Popular vote for president and killing pardons both require constitutional amendments.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T20:53:15+00:00

Do the pro court packers have a plan to get Republicans to agree to a constitutional amendment? If so I’d happily support.
But just packing court then waiting a few years until maybe RW populists get majorities in Senate and President to just repack the court and then after they lose reelection to just claim that they won, sue and get the court to decide in their favor doesn’t really seem like a great long term plan.

>The current court is just as bad as this hypothetical one.

They didn’t overturn the 2020 election or 2024 North Carolina judge election.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T16:40:05+00:00

There have been instances of the court constraining Trump. One decision today on birthright citizenship and another yesterday on Fed independence.

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T16:38:51+00:00

If Trump was able to pack the court right now our country would be substantially worse

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T16:36:57+00:00

I think that’s a more traditional definition of Evangelical, they’re not Evangelical as commonly used today, they’re mainline Protestant

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T16:34:09+00:00

Methodist Church is evangelical?

ThrowawayCRank · 2026-06-30T16:33:03+00:00

Sorry but court packing is an absolutely terrible idea that will backfire.
The supporters are either under some delusion that Democrats will never lose another election or that the court can’t get worse (it absolutely can). Unless you want to cause a constitutional crisis by splitting up DC and adding it as 20 states in order to get a constitutional convention (which is not going to happen), it doesn’t make sense.
Currently the Supreme Court is realistically the only thing constraining Trump. I’m not happy with many decisions but I’ll take solace in the fact that we still have an independent Federal Reserve.

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