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Parking structures are:

1) an eyesore 2) poor use of space in dense urban areas

Sure let’s reduce urban housing supply cause suburbanites need to drive into town for a little culture. Bringing the noise, smog, and road rage along!

Or build culture out there and bike or walk. Omg.

It’s insanely toxic, and the epitome of first world entitlement.

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I'd prefer for there to be a more market incentive to build parking garages than a mandate for commercial/offices to have to all have their own parking, or effectively subsidized free street side parking. Think of all the surface area used up by cars parking on the street; pave that over with a sidewalk and allow bars/restaurants to set up shop there. That's what I would like.

Building a parking spot in a modern building can cost $20k, which is hard to recoup with parking revenue.

If the break even target is 10 years with no interest accrued, we are talking about $5.47 a day in revenue needs to be generated (plus the overhead of managing the lot itself).

How many paid parking lots do you see that are full on a regular basis? Are they really generating revenue even half time?

So you're arguing parking is way too cheap and we should make it more expensive. I think that's generally a consensus opinion among city planners.

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