<story><title>No minimum parking requirements? No problem for Fayetteville, Arkansas</title><url>https://www.sightline.org/2022/02/22/no-minimum-parking-requirements-no-problem-for-fayetteville-arkansas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>YES, but.... there&amp;#x27;s a whole part of this that is missing.&lt;p&gt;Bentonville and Fayetteville have built almost 1000 miles of bike specific, particularly Mountain Biking specific trails, right through town.&lt;p&gt;This is not the faux &amp;quot;bike friendly&amp;quot; BS crap with &amp;quot;bike lanes&amp;quot; that painted in traffic that everyone ignores... These are not an attempt to squeeze bikes into an automotive infrastructure and all the other crap politicians pull... these are trails through the woods, backyards, down neighborhoods, paralleling sidewalks, etc. This is making Biking a first class citizen.&lt;p&gt;Very few people are comfortable riding bikes in automovtive traffic. You will eventually get hit by someone posting selfies on instagram or playing their friends in wordle. If cities want actual change, they need dedicated infrastructure for bikes, and these two cities have shown that it absolutely works.</text></comment>
<story><title>No minimum parking requirements? No problem for Fayetteville, Arkansas</title><url>https://www.sightline.org/2022/02/22/no-minimum-parking-requirements-no-problem-for-fayetteville-arkansas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>falsenapkin</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t even know that minimum parking was an issue, where else can I read about this? How prevalent is it in other cities? It sounds like some 50s&amp;#x2F;60s era white flight policy permanently enshrining cars into city life.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been to Bentonville (~2016) quite a bit for work, always said I&amp;#x27;d go to Fayetteville &lt;i&gt;next time&lt;/i&gt;. Bentonville wasn&amp;#x27;t anything worth writing about for how I want to live but I can see it being an attractive place for quite a lot of people, I was kind of surprised by how underpopulated it seemed. I guess not a lot of jobs outside of the obvious few. Crystal Bridges was a great museum, the Ozarks are lovely. In general I felt a lot more positive visiting that area than I was expecting to.</text></comment>