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parking needs and control usage
Municipal Corporations should of personal motor vehicles.
He further added, “In addition
incentivize private developers to this elite capture of our public
and owners to acquire space for spaces, our housing policies are
building underground and over- further bankrolling car owners.
Municipalities across the country
ground car parks mandate minimum parking to
be built into buildings, including
often for affordable housing
where residents cannot even
uncontrolled parking supply addressed about dealing with afford their own vehicle. But the
encourages more car ownership the problem of out-of-towners’ cost of building this additional
and driving. and others who cannot use a parking only drives up house
mobile phone for varied reasons
Innovation in Mobile- (no phone, dead battery, etc) by prices further, making housing
based Payments and a planning simple alternatives, such less affordable for everyone in the
city. Many Indian cities require
Smart Contract as enlisting local shops as a place developers to build a car park for
where one-off parking payments
Nagendra Reddy V highlighted each apartment, regardless of
some highly significant steps can be made. whether the occupant can afford
underway in Bengaluru, which is Another important innovation a car, or if the building is situated
now starting a citywide parking to watch in the country is near a mass transit system.”
management system, covering the approach to the parking The national building code 2016
around 12,000 parking slots. management contract. also recommends two parking
Reddy spoke about Bengaluru’s Amit Haware, highlighted spaces per 100sqmt of residential
plans to use mobile-phone based some of the recent parking group and cluster housing
payments and skip parking policy developments at Delhi. constructed across the country.
meters completely. He also It is important to change the Through such rules, municipalities

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