When municipal leaders talk about parking in downtown business districts, the dialogue usually goes something like this:
Merchant Association: We need parking garages! And time limits on street parking!
Shoppers: We support downtown, but there’s no parking!
Downtown workers: There’s no parking, and I’m tired of skipping out every two hours to move my car!
City Office: We show 500 parking spaces within the downtown core. At most, 258 of them are used at any one time.
Environmentalists: Parking is EVIL!