> Otherwise the occupant of the address could just purchase a car, but have nowhere to park it. Then they park on the street. Or take a previous occupants spot. Pretty soon you have cars taking up spaces that were not previously assigned to them causing a cascade of parking wars.
I'm not sure where you've lived but I've never seen this happen? I live in the US. I've seen multiple ways to prevent this.
People who don't have a parking spot shouldn't have access to the parking lot.
Even if you do have access you have to register your car, and any cars that were not registered will get a warning then either a ticket or towed.
Another solution is to just have assigned parking.
Parking on the street is fine if that's legal? I don't see the issue with that.
> perhaps a better solution is to make each residence come with a parking spot - that is essentially owned by the resident. Then if they do not need it they could rent it out until which time they do need it (if ever).
This creates incentives to get a car though. You have to do more work to not drive and it's possible you can't find a "tenant" for the parking spot.
I'm not sure where you've lived but I've never seen this happen? I live in the US. I've seen multiple ways to prevent this.
People who don't have a parking spot shouldn't have access to the parking lot.
Even if you do have access you have to register your car, and any cars that were not registered will get a warning then either a ticket or towed.
Another solution is to just have assigned parking.
Parking on the street is fine if that's legal? I don't see the issue with that.
> perhaps a better solution is to make each residence come with a parking spot - that is essentially owned by the resident. Then if they do not need it they could rent it out until which time they do need it (if ever).
This creates incentives to get a car though. You have to do more work to not drive and it's possible you can't find a "tenant" for the parking spot.