America’s urban EV charging plans don’t have to replicate the mistakes we made when the last time we retrofit our cities around the gas-powered automobile. And done right, the EV revolution could be a generational opportunity not just to ditch gas, but to put cars at the bottom of the transportation hierarchy where they belong.

Decades of scholarship have shown that when developers are required to build and maintain residential parking spaces (or even just “convinced,” through the publicly subsidized tax credit and rebate programs that Marshall and Simon laud), rents go up by as much as 25 percent for buildings that supply the industry-standard two spots per unit.