South Australia considers requiring home developers to build larger parking garages
The South Australian government wants to increase the size of parking spaces in garages for new residential builds, but the opposition and industry groups say it will just make properties more expensive for buyers.
Legislators will do anything except build a tram
Just burn the world and be done with it.
"I think currently the regulation allows for developers to build new properties with garages that are frankly just too narrow," Premier Peter Malinauskas told ABC Radio Adelaide.
"You can't even fit a Hilux or a four-wheel drive in them and that just doesn't make sense given that's where such a significant proportion of the new sale car market in Australia comes from."
That is the fucking point. Holy shot these people have lost the plot. If your car is 2x the size of a normal car then that should mean you suffer 2x the pain. Not everybody else. Next thing they will require garages to each have enough space for a private jet....
Get a grip. Fuck I hate how dumb Australian politicians are. Gonna just move to the Netherlands one of these days
When I built my house, I made the garage 8000x6000 even though the architect, builders and council all said I should do 5000x5500 or something absurdly small.
That extra metre of width meant that I had shelving down both walls of the garage, and I didn't need anywhere as much storage inside the house (space which costs more to build, heat and cool).
My neighbourhood is full of houses with little garages. Every single one of them is filled with shit and there is a car or two on the street. The backstreets are all half-duplex because of it.
Another BIG difference is that I have a 15A power socket next to my car. You simply cannot charge an EV on the street.
Just take the Japanese approach, require proof that your garage is big enough before selling you the car.
Crossposting to !fuckcars@lemmy.world
Feels more like !nottheonion@lemmy.world.
Por que no los dos?
I live in an area with a lot of new developments and this is definitely a planning problem that needs to be looked at. Many roads constantly have rows of cars parked along the side because none of the owners use their garage (either because their oversized car doesn't fit or because the development is too tight to get in and out of comfortably).
When we moved in, we had a two car garage and three cars. (Actually a few project cars in the back yard, but they don’t count). The land developer did not permit three car garages
Now I have two adult nieces and one nieces boyfriend and their extra three cars. We also have one camper trailer that used to fit in the back yard, but someone installed a roof-top-tent on it and now doesn’t even fit in the garage.
Fortunately, I have two very accomodating neighbours.
We also have one neighbour who did drive a RAM 2500, but decided to downsize to a normal sized vehicle because they couldn’t get their vehicle out of the street because of all the P-Plater cars that were inconsiderately parked in the street.
If there are cars lining the streets, that's a red flag to build a damn light rail instead.
oh no no, we won't be doing anything sensible like that.
