Public transport in Barcelona is excellent

A lot of European apartment parking is just a designated street parking space anyway. I'm not sure if that's the case in Barcelona, but I see it often in the UK.

Barcelona has great public transit and quite a decent bike lane network. I have no idea why people use cars in Barcelona.

There is no way to get rid of cars without inconveniencing drivers, and they will have to be very inconvenienced.

Public transport in Barcelona is great, and street parking for residents is also pretty affordable.

Parking on the roadside (outside the official parking spots, which you have to pay for) will usually get you a ticket or towed ... free public roadside parking is mostly a thing of the past in most densely-populated places, really ...

Getting rid of parking is 100% the easiest way to get rid of cars. Maybe second easiest besides replacing roads with pedestrian walk ways.

I think this is fine

It means easier rules for housing in a city that's mostly friendly to public transit and biking, which should help with the rising housing cost Spain is dealing with.

If you live in barcelona you aren't expecting to need a car anyways.

unhappy that their parking isn’t convenient.

Oh no, not me, I'm perfectly fiiiine walking as far as necessary to get to my apartment from my parking space (says the people who are able to drive home in the middle of the day and park up for the night when everybody else is at work).

It's not just lack of convenience, it's behaviors: double parking, congestion, Oh I'm just going in for a second...

I mean, in an ideal world, this is great.

I think it needs a followup to at least track, possibly tax, residents of apartments which lack parking who also own cars. In small numbers it's no big deal, but it could quickly get out of hand.

The idea is to remove free parking on the road side as well. Taking up space from the public like this shouldn't be free. The end goal is to reduce the numbers of cars, not to put them somewhere else.

Hard no. Parking shouldn't be bound as a necessity to every real estate, but every car ownership (see Japan).

There of course is an argument to make sure there's enough parking per let's say square 100m for everyone who'd need it for their car (even more so if this free's up the damn road), but mandating an available car parking space for any real estate would go the wrong direction.

Just because parking isnt mandatory doesnt mean they wont build it. It will just match demand more closely.

Plenty of functional cities were built before parking was a thing. While they do have lots of on street parking, pre-1950s cities also have the best transit.

That's how it played out in my neighborhood. The less space for cars on private property, the more cars left out on the street. The cars become a problem without even being used.