A West Campus parking garage destroyed in 2019 (Photo by Philip Ulrich / YouTube) Regulation around parking could not sound more boring on its face, but there's a reason people get worked up about it – the number of parking spots the city requires to be constructed with every new building has an effect on most every goal Austin has: affordability, carbon footprint, mobility, beauty, and the list goes on. First, amid a housing crisis , there's the issue of developers turning valuable land into parking spots instead of more units because code requires them to.

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