City's current idea about parking is from the early 1950s
Editor:

Our City Council will soon consider amending our building ordinances to facilitate the intensificationof underground parking. Our City government currently believes that adequate on-site parking reduces auto congestion. This belief dates back to the early 1950s.

In reality increasing auto infrastructure (the number of on-site parking spaces and the carrying capacity of streets) will induce auto congestion, auto pollution, urban runoff, global warming and auto accidents.

Various cities in America and Europe are reducing or eliminating on-site parking in the center of their towns. What these cities have come to understand is their residents and visitors prefer to live in and to visit a place that is not buried in smelly, dangerous, ugly, noisy auto congestion. Carmel by ordinance forbids on-site parking in their central business district. They did this because they want their town to be safe and profitable.

If you are skeptical about what I'm saying, read The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. Published in 2005 by the American Planning Association.
Michael Hoag
Laguna Beach