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Pittsburgh eliminates off-street parking requirement

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The city of Pittsburgh is doing away with a requirement for at least one off street parking space for each new townhouse.

It might have seemed like a good idea originally to get cars off the street, but in the city all those parking pads or garages tended to go in front of the house breaking up sidewalks, taking away porches and making city developments seem suburban.


The curb cut took away a street space anyway.

City council unanimously removed the ordinance for single attached dwellings with the support of several neighborhood groups.