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Eliminate minimum parking requirements, but do so by changing requirement to recommendation. Developers can use it as a frame of reference if needed, but won't need to apply for a variance if they come up short.
The trick then is at the design review stage builders are given an infinite list of guidelines that are ambiguously required, resulting in multi-year back-and-forth about whether or not they're necessary, and now everybody's homeless because nobody can build.
This is not hypothetical.
I downloaded and tooted this video of Mark Richardson of Housing Now Toronto, an Affordable Housing builder, complaining about exactly this problem:
https://mastodon.social/@Pxtl/110300343308877005