Looser parking requirements are no threat to DC

Apparently, a major threat to the District looms on the horizon. “This is a very dangerous proposal,” the warning recently went out. “We think it threatens the future of Washington.”

Terrorists? Hurricanes? Flooding from climate change? Sequestration? Meteors? Nonexistent snow? A paucity of decent bagel shops?

No, the threat is that the District might get out of the business of micromanaging the size of apartment-building parking garages. Run for cover!

The group warning of this looming disaster? An organization that you might give money to yet disagree entirely with its often extreme lobbying agenda: AAA.

Continue reading an op-ed Matt Yglesias and I co-wrote in the Washington Post.