Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia wants to get rid of rules requiring parking spots that are making the housing affordability crisis worse

Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and the former mayor of Long Beach, plans to introduce a bill early next week to ban minimum requirements for parking spaces near transit hubs, he said on Wednesday. 

The legislation aims to promote housing density and walkability in urban areas by getting rid of requirements that developers provide a certain amount of off-street parking with every project. 

"We know that parking raises the cost of housing immensely," Garcia told Insider on Wednesday. "We need to create cities and communities that are more walkable, that are more multimodal friendly." 

Garcia first made the announcement on bluesky, a burgeoning alternative to Twitter that a handful of Democratic lawmakers have begun using.

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