[Nashe]

Originally Posted by Taeolas

The City's business should be balancing parking needs versus proper transit and densification needs. In other words, they should be making sure that the parking lots that are allowed are neat, tidy, as public as necessary to serve the overall city needs and so forth.

They should be doing what they can to prevent developers from basically buying old buildings, knocking them down and leaving a gravel "parking lot" behind and charging for that parking.

Basically the longer term goal for any city IMO is that downtown parking should be for VISITORS only. (and maybe for DT residents)

People who work 9-5 M-F downtown should be encouraged to take transit in and out of the core, and not be bringing their vehicles in. (By making long term parking options comparable or more expensive than monthly passes for example). This should reduce traffic in the core and make more short term parking available for visitors, making the core more inviting for people to come in.

I agree with all of that. However that still has nothing to do with the city building parking garages... I imagine it has enough on it's plate what with managing all of the on-street parking (which is increasing in recent years).