South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not.

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just burn the world and be done with it.

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  • CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is the fucking point. Holy shot these people have lost the plot. If your car is 2x the size of a normal car then that should mean you get 2x the pain. Not everybody else. Next thing they will require garages to each have enough space for a private jet…

    Get a grip. Fuck I hate how dumb Australian politicians are. Gonna just move to the Netherlands one of these days

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If your car is 2x the size of a normal car then that should mean you suffer 2x the pain. Not everybody else.

      Everyone else does suffer the pain, though, because these people park on the street and effectively remove the left lane for several hundred metres at all times.

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jeez, wasn’t expecting a premier to say that crap. Not even a Liberal prem, although it’s not as if Labor inspires much faith either.

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    • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In some fields Malinauskus is more right wing than his Liberal party predecessor. Urban development is one of the big ones.

      This is the premier who says “urban sprawl is not a dirty word”, totally killed the right to protest in South Australia and is dedicated to commercialising the parklands. But he did undo the insane privatisation of the rail system so he’s not totally blind to a good thing.

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• Grail@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Legislators will do anything except build a tram

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I built my house, I made the garage 8000x6000 even though the architect, builders and council all said I should do 5000x5500 or something absurdly small.

  That extra metre of width meant that I had shelving down both walls of the garage, and I didn’t need anywhere as much storage inside the house (space which costs more to build, heat and cool).

  My neighbourhood is full of houses with little garages. Every single one of them is filled with shit and there is a car or two on the street. The backstreets are all half-duplex because of it.

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Crossposting to !fuckcars@lemmy.world

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Feels more like !nottheonion@lemmy.world.

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    • ada@friend.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Por que no los dos?

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• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just take the Japanese approach, require proof that your garage is big enough before selling you the car.

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• Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I live in an area with a lot of new developments and this is definitely a planning problem that needs to be looked at. Many roads constantly have rows of cars parked along the side because none of the owners use their garage (either because their oversized car doesn’t fit or because the development is too tight to get in and out of comfortably).

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When we moved in, we had a two car garage and three cars. (Actually a few project cars in the back yard, but they don’t count). The land developer did not permit three car garages

    Now I have two adult nieces and one nieces boyfriend and their extra three cars. We also have one camper trailer that used to fit in the back yard, but someone installed a roof-top-tent on it and now doesn’t even fit in the garage.

    Fortunately, I have two very accomodating neighbours.

    We also have one neighbour who did drive a RAM 2500, but decided to downsize to a normal sized vehicle because they couldn’t get their vehicle out of the street because of all the P-Plater cars that were inconsiderately parked in the street.

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If there are cars lining the streets, that’s a red flag to build a damn light rail instead.

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    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      oh no no, we won’t be doing anything sensible like that.

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  but the opposition and industry groups say it will just make properties more expensive for buyers.

  *proceeds to not mention which industry groups*

  To be fair, it probably goes without saying…

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  • vividspecter@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Property Council SA is mentioned later in the article. And in this case, they are right, as this is another subsidy for people with gigantic vehicles that must be borne by all of the people that have smaller cars (or no cars at all).

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re right, not sure how I missed that. Thanks!

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