Too Much Parking in Boston

A Massachusetts regional planning agency says many of Boston's neighborhoods have too many unused parking spaces.

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March 9, 2017, 7:00 AM PST

"[The Metropolitan Area Planning Council], a regional planning agency, collected data on whether residents in Arlington, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, and Melrose were using all the parking that’s available to them. Researchers found that about 25 percent of parking spaces for multifamily residential buildings went unused between midnight and 4 a.m," Nicole Dungca reports for The Boston Globe.

MAPC says this results from too many parking and zoning regulations that require unnecessary spots. "This matters because the unused spaces could be used for badly needed housing, open space, or other developments," Dungca writes.

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