No more parking spaces!

Maybe because one of them contributes directly to 1300 premature deaths from air pollution, another few hundred deaths on the roads and costs billions in wasted time for commercial goods stuck in traffic?

If you want a car space buy or rent one what's the big deal

Yawn. I already did, and if I ever moved I would not consider any home for purchase that did not have its own private driveway and gates. That would be a deal breaker for me.

I have no problem paying extra for a home with parking. I wouldn't even consider looking at one that didn't offer it at all.

This is about removing or making the option of car ownership as difficult or even impossible for NEW housing developments, for many who may have a genuine need of a car - not about your lofty ambitions for saving lives from air pollution.

Frankly, I'm more concerned with people being able to live in homes that meet their daily needs, and the needs of their families, and if that doesn't involve driving, great. But if it does, they shouldn't be punished for it.

I know young people who've bought homes as far away as Sligo, Cavan, Louth and Offaly as it was all they could afford, and they are commuting to Dublin every day or several days a week for work. Can't do that on a bike, and their commutes are so long they are too exhausted to do much at the weekend. I wonder what the stress and long term effects of living that way will do and what toll it will take to their lifespans. It's not a great way to live.

Everyone living in "15 minute cities" is a pipe dream.

Think you missed the part about where this applies. This is exactly what it's intended to avoid. No one off house in Sligo isn't going to be banned from having a car space. An apartment on Stephens green might though

Well, it wasn't a one-off house in Sligo. They have housing estates outside of Dublin too.

And Dublin is a lot bigger than the city centre.

Stop being disingenuous. Of course cycling from Sligo to Dublin for work is not possible, and I never suggested it was. And those who were priced out of Dublin, weren't priced out of it because of the cost of a parking space.

In case you didn't know, most of Dublin's 1.5 million population don't live in city centre apartments. They live in the suburbs.

I have no problem with more housing developments being built in Dublin, but not those planned without space allowed for car parking facilities based on some vague promise that the Councils will ensure there will be enough Go Cars to go around if you do need one!

As far as I'm concerned, that is a fool's notion. End of.

It's funny to see the tactic of weaponising sustainable transport in arguments designed to block sustainable transport, like all those people who develop a very sudden interest in emissions when it comes to Bus Connects here or LTNs in the UK.

It's possible to be concerned about more than one thing at the same time. Yes, our housing crisis is absolutely a very serious issue impacting quality of life for many people, often condemning them to long car commutes and car-bound lifestyles. Ironically, the ability to deliver MORE housing units which reducing parking minimums supports is one partial solution to this, but you're opposing it.

It's also funny to see how 'everyone' is so often brought into these arguments. There is no proposal to remove parking for everyone or put everyone into 15 minute cities. That's a pure strawman.

Just ICYMI, no one is coming to take your car away.

I didn't think they were. I was just giving you my two cents as to why I wouldn't do without a car.

That's just rude.

Why do you keep saying this? Or that nobody is going to come and take our parking spaces away. I haven't seen anybody making that point only you. Everybody knows what they're debating here and it isn't that. It's time to stop using this particular straw man. Besides, most people here have already bought their homes and aren't going to be affected by these regulations.

That's my point though, there's no proposal for it to become the norm. It is a specific guideline for specific circumstances, which makes perfect sense for those circumstances.

Almost all the arguments against the guideline are based on the assumption that it is going to be applied broadly, way outside of those specific circumstances.

'Anti-car' is a bit of a simplification. I own a car and drive a car. I'm not anti-car. I'm anti planning our cities largely around the desires of car owners and to hell with everyone else.

I keep saying it because almost all the arguments against the proposal are based on the premise that the guidelines will apply to the individual arguing, when, as you say, most people here aren't going to be affected in the slightest - but seem hugely affronted by the idea that parts of the city where they're never going to live might not be built around their personal desires.

It's not going to affect you either, yet you continue to contribute to the thread.

Again I come back to this choice/personal desires thing. People end up living where they do for all sorts of reasons and many of them are external. Jobs, relationships, finances mainly. I'm sure there are lots of people stuck in estates in Westmeath who would gladly move into the Dublin commuter belt and get rid of the car if they could. This is the real world.

You seem to have ignored the emergency trip to A & E.

Add in all the extra time getting to and from the collection point for a hire/shared car and it becomes less practical. Unless these hired cars are going to be on our doorsteps?

Hired cars and car shares are different for me. I have three car shares with 5 minutes walk of my house. That is obviously the goal with these parking restricted new developments. I can log onto the app and pick the car I want depending on what's closest/available/size of the car i need. Below shows the amount that are available in Eindhoven. I know this is better than what's currently in Ireland but 2 years ago this map looked a lot more empty. This is also only one of the companies that operate in Eindhoven so doesn't even show all the cars available.

I expect people will say that this isn't possible in Ireland. But if housing developments reduce parking then people will need alternatives. It will be viable for car shares to invest in their fleets as their user base grows.

This isn't viable for everyone, if my child had nut allergies or other medical issues then I would 100% have a car outside the door. If I needed to travel to work I would have a car.

Weekends away require a bit more planning as I need to travel to the car rental desk at the airport.