I have a story about parking.
Here in my urban neighborhood of Victorian houses, a gentrified one, there was one dwelling that was not renovated for decades. 98% of the housing stock here went through major modernization to make this a toney and desireable neighborhood, but no one developed this structure (built as a 2 family home in 1900) because it was landlocked. There is NO place to park as it sits on a major street with no parking, and alley and side streets are not tenable. It sat, crumbling and delapidated for the 30 years I have lived here. Previous owners tried to buy a parking space from our friends who live next door, but friends said no to that.
So finally someone came along to renovate this property, turning it into a 4 unit rental. We oldtimers shook our heads and said “who is going to rent these places? There is no parking! Where will they park a car!!!?? And now, 4 of them to find parking!”
And here’s what happened: these 4 units rented out right away. Swiftly!........ Who knew???!!!
I think what is going on nere is that young people who work downtown are not car dependent, woth Uber and bikes and buses and etc. To me, this building seems to signal a turning point in our worship of The Car. It is cool because my neighborhood was built before The Car and perhaps we will be returning to that state in my lifetime.