NIMBY neighborhood groups in famously citizen-activist suburbs like Evanston and Highland Park had better take a close look at SB11, the transit bill that awaits Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature.

Most media attention has been on how the so-called “fiscal cliff” facing transit agencies would be solved. (The answer is through repurposing the state road fund, increasing tolls on tollways and a likely 0.25-percentage-point increase in sales tax in Chicago and Cook County. For the record, we’re good with the first two and believe the last one should not happen.)

But tucked in SB11 is a new regulation that would stop many neighbors who already struggle to park their cars from objecting to the building of new high rises without any parking spaces.

To the delight of our vociferous anti-car lobb

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