ZipCar: Customers aren't rowdy college students out to destroy Brookline

Why do I ask? Because the objection to Zipcar has nothing to do with regulations zoning, noise-- please-- or anything else. What it has to do with is townie and/or yuppie landlords with driveway or dirt-lot space that they're able to rent for extorionate amounts of money. For every person that ditches their car, or couples who get rid of one of their cars, that lessens the demand for off-street parking spaces and makes them less valuable, whether they're rented individually or lumped in with the rent on an apartment.

That's it. That's the whole story, and if anyone argues otherwise, they're lying, and doing it badly. Whatever they say their reasons are, and whatever excuses they make-- "People can ride the T! Or take cabs!"-- are just a joke. What they want is to continue to be able to rent out mud puddles for $300 rather than $200, or tack $50K onto the price of a crappy condo just because it includes a parking space.