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Comment by moheeb | Hacker News Reader

"Here in Bend, for instance, you must have a driveway with not one, but two parking spots. Land of the free indeed..."

Where I live people don't leave any room for parking on their own property and all of the streets are completely jammed with cars, every inch. You don't hardly dare move your car if you've been able to find a spot.

Is that freer?

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Forcing everyone to build parking makes building more expensive (http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/07/29/22612207/...) and spread out (google "parking crater" for examples, e.g., http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parking-cris...) which makes it harder to walk, bike, and take public transportation, which causes more people to drive, which causes more need for parking.

Parking your car costs money. People should pay to use it if they need it, but the rest of us shouldn't have to. Right now, drivers are subsidized.

I don't know what point you're trying to make here. Everyone who lives there was free to put a driveway on their property, presumably, but just chose to deal with the hassle of tight street parking in exchange for more room for yard or house on their property. Allowing them this tradeoff is very much freer!

I'm sorry someone is forcing you to own a car, and forcing you not to pay a garage owner for somewhere to park it.

If you want more parking on your own property, feel free to build it. If you don't need it, you shouldn't have to.

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