An end to parking minimums was embraced Thursday by most Somerville city councilors and staff for Mayor Katjana Ballantyne. The resolution presented at the council meeting calls for the two groups to draft a zoning ordinance to “remove the requirement to build unnecessary new parking spaces.”
The problem, he said, is that in much of the city, current zoning ordinances set “very high and completely arbitrary” requirements for the minimum amount of parking that needs to be built “whether or not it is needed.”
