Denver City Council abolishes parking minimum requirements for new development

That's going to be a nightmare. Say someone puts in a condo block with no parking. The surface streets will be FILLED with cars. The neighbors will scream about people parking in front of their houses.

The fantasy is "Well, the residents just won't own cars." That is a fantasy.

Portland tried it and that's exactly what the end result was.

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2022/12/27/portland-mandates-parking-u-turn

"A city-commissioned survey of 115 residents of new apartment buildings would show that 72 percent of the respondents owned cars, with the majority parking on neighborhood streets. Even though the same survey showed that the areas around the buildings had plenty of available parking, neighbors didn’t perceive it that way.  

Charlie Hales, who was mayor during the controversy and had championed the removal of parking mandates as a council member in 2002, even floated the idea of instituting a building moratorium until the zoning code could be sorted out. Hales told Willamette Week that he had anticipated developers might build one parking spot instead of two, but hadn’t imagined banks would finance housing with no parking at all. 

In response to the outcry, Portland’s city council reinstituted a parking requirement for multifamily developments with more than 30 units. Those larger buildings would need to provide one parking space for every three or four units, depending on the building size. “That was the strategic retreat,” Hales explained. “We decided to adjust our ideal slightly to a watered-down version in order to reduce the controversy.”"