# We’re eliminating parking minimums

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2016-07-12

cities, city-planning, climate-action-plan, climate-change, driving, low-carbon, ontario, parking-minimums, parking-ratio, planning, province-of-ontario, toronto, uncategorized, urbanism, zoning, zoning-by-law

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I’ve been writing about the hypocrisy of parking minimums for years now. Some posts [here](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/95288467909/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-parking-minimums), [here](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/102658703988/the-hypocrisy-of-parking-minimums), and [here](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/145855695473/the-cost-of-parking-minimums). 

To me, it doesn’t make sense to try and promote more sustainable forms of urban mobility while at the same time mandating a minimum number of parking stalls in every new development. 

Do you want people driving or _not_ driving? Pick one.

That’s why I was happy to see the following action item in [the province of Ontario’s five year plan](https://www.ontario.ca/page/climate-change-action-plan#section-6) to transition to a low-carbon economy and fight climate change (thank you [Ken Wilcox](https://twitter.com/kennethwilcox) for bringing it to my attention):

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3ef1dae89d72621cc3d1c7914363c0d2.png)

I haven’t gone through the entire action plan and so this post is not a commentary on that. It is, however, a commentary on subsection 1.4. I believe it is the right thing to do and I’m stoked to see it in the plan.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/were-eliminating-parking-minimums)*