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Received a (digital) letter from local authority informing me the parking fees will be increasing.

I don't have a car, so 🤷‍♀️ but I'm slightly outraged to discover that a residents permit only costs 250 DKK/year - up to 750 DKK for the most polluting.

An is only 50DKK. *per year*

Just me that thinks that is *unreasonably* low (given we live in the centre of a highly walkable/cyclable city)?

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@Ruth_Mottram 750 DK seems still reasonable.

The residents parking permit for the street where we used to live did cost us 39€ in 2009.

But after a time we didn't renew it. Because parking without permit was only a 15 € fine.

And there were hardly ever any controls after the normal working hours. Or on the weekend.

So in the end we paid 39€ for one permit and 30 € for parking without. In 10 years of living there...

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@Ruth_Mottram Same discussion in Copenhagen. My neighbourhood is packed with residents' cars that rarely leave their parking spot. Why they can't settle for a car-sharing thing is quite beyond me....🤷‍♀️

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@Ruth_Mottram if you can afford to buy/hp, that is not going to touch the sides.
Your permits seem to be about air quality more than anything.

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@Ruth_Mottram Aarhus: ‘Hold my beer’ 💪🏻👏🏻

https://stiften.dk/aarhus/milliarderne-er-fordelt-faa-det-store-overblik-over-hvordan-dine-skattekroner-bliver-brugt-det-naeste-aar

Can’t help mentioning that when I ran for city council in Frederiksberg, I responded ‘10 times’, when asked how much parking permits should increase. I wasn’t elected, but we are now halfway (the licenses were at DKK150 then).

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@Niall Given the rather savage cuts the kommune has implemented in education - this hurts even more!

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@sorenhave @Ruth_Mottram Det bliver ogsü et større beløb for bil nummer to pü Frederiksberg. Har ikke bil, sü kender ikke beløbene.

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@Ruth_Mottram Gah, that's infuriating. Private parking permits are basically a year-long land lease on prime real estate in the city center. They should be priced *at a minimum* at the yearly land market value of the location. Probably more since there are infrastructure maintenance costs too.

Every parking space is like, what, 6M²? Meaning a fair value of unsubsidized parking should likely be in the range of X * 10.000 DKK/year?

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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram A parking space in Germany is at least 5x2.5m - so at least 12.5 sqm - less than the recommended size for a kids room.

A reasonable at cost price including construction, maintenance and policing is around 220 EUR per year (1)

(1) https://www.agora-verkehrswende.de/fileadmin/Projekte/2022/Umparken/Agora-Verkehrswende_Factsheet_Umparken_Auflage-4.pdf

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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram This kind of reasoning is how the new property price assessment have gone completely mad. Their way of reasoning is that any property should be priced after the most efficient way to use it. That is not a great way price properties in general.

These parking lots going to 100s of kr. are not for general parking. In Copenhagen parking in general is much more expensive getting up to around that per day which is more reasonably priced for that kind of prime real estate parking. (and that is with a period card which is the least expensive way)

That said it is still free for electrical (and Hydrogen) cars, which is just a decision by the city.
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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram almost. A parking permit does not guarantee you a spot.

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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram Now I have only lived on Østerbro, but by far most parking spots there are under zone pay. I can't say I have parked much in central Copenhagen, but I did not feel like free parking spots were abundant.
And its the same at the university, or in the FĂŚlled park.
I knew of a few small places nearby outside of pay zones, but most were not.
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@erk @yosh there is abundant parking here in Valby/FKB too. We are far from only car free family. I once read less than 20% households in Frederiksberg own a car.. No idea how up to date that figure is but in general there's plenty of space. Except on weekends.

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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram I live in a nice apartment building. Scaling my rent by floor area and accounting for all the floors, street parking should be worth ~$100,000/yr here. That's the average household income in this country.

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@Ruth_Mottram @yosh A quick pull from DST shows that it is a bit more, but not by much.

(source: https://www.statistikbanken.dk/BIL800)
2023 Families, total Families w…
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@yosh @Ruth_Mottram The US is pretty car-dependent generally, but I am about 400 ft from a public transport hub in a dense downtown. I don't own a car and I don't need one here.

But also I hate street parking even in the sprawl regions, which I avoid to the degree I can because they are the way they are.

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