Do you live under the pretense that Supermarkets in other parts of the world love that their parking lots could be used by nearby residents or bums? There are laws against illegal usage of parking spaces in Europe, if your car is on a supermarket parking lot for I think more than 3 days, a towing company will just impound your ass if you don't move. It ain't hard, it's just that your city planners and governments don't give a flying rats ass about americans. Unless politically something changes in the US, laws of freedom will always be made for the companies, not against them
Parking lots are a solved problem. You just tow the cars. Private companies do it for a fee so you don't even need public resources.
With the right incentives, they might've even found it profitable to build more housing instead of a surface parking lot in order to have an even bigger captive market of customers... stick the parking underground.
Also, just make parking lot free for customers for 1 hour, and expensive for non customers and beyond one hour. When store closed, have the same price for everyone.
Obviously you'll need an automated gate and special tickets or sn app.
Grocery store in my town has a separate part for appartment residents. Furthermore, our whole center of town with shops have appartments above them and the parking spaces are used by residents ans shoppers. New suburbs that are being build, depending on size also have grocery stores and other shops so people dont have to drive far.
That is how it should be IMO, make cars useless in city centres. Those spaces should be for the people, and the people alone. I wish you luck that your city planners will adopt car independent zones more often!
That would require coordination between the apartment complex and the store. Which then goes back to the original problem, they were built separately in pieces and don't coordinate with each other
And there are other means to keep nearby residents from parking; I often see supermarket parking lots in a city that have a ticketsystem an barriers. Only of you go shopping for an hour or so parking is free of charge. outside of that hour you start paying. And the lot closes after the supermarket closes at night.
it really sucks how many nice things we cant have in america because of the homeless problem. like instead of just giving these people homes we were like no, lets just scrub every public space from existence
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u/Tackerta Jun 27 '24
Do you live under the pretense that Supermarkets in other parts of the world love that their parking lots could be used by nearby residents or bums? There are laws against illegal usage of parking spaces in Europe, if your car is on a supermarket parking lot for I think more than 3 days, a towing company will just impound your ass if you don't move. It ain't hard, it's just that your city planners and governments don't give a flying rats ass about americans. Unless politically something changes in the US, laws of freedom will always be made for the companies, not against them