This is actually already happening, and it has played out horribly in real life. This is what has caused our north american urban sprawl and has demolished most of our downtown areas. It hurts small businesses because they can't just open a cafe in a small town, now they also need to build parking next to it. It spreads everything out and makes car dependence worse. On top of that, there is no consensus on how much parking is "adequate".

This video is fascinating, and changed my perception of parking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8

Partially agree, but this inevitably leads to unaffordable rent when developers are forced to add an 8 spot parking garage in what was once zoned for a single family home which isn't economically feasible. Instead, they have to buy up multiple lots and put up a huge apartment building. This adds to upfront cost but it works due to it's scale; however, this also bars most home owners from legally adding more homes to their property while also making it more difficult for developers to add more desity by adding that much more upfront cost. Underground structures are hellah expensive.

The real issue here is over-reliance on motor-vehicles and under-performing public transit. There is a bus I have to take to get downtown from time to time, but what should be a bus lane is a parking lane after 5pm so it's always late and I'm pretty sure having a huge accordion bus weaving in and out of traffic every 2 blocks makes traffic worse.

I haven't owned a car in over ten years, so I don't need to take up that extra space to store a vehicle. I dream of living in a dense, car-free area that has a robust cycling network, trams, etc. Only service vehicles are allowed and the only parking spots are handicap. Of course, such a place doesn't exist in the north american continent, or any where really except maybe in the Netherlands.

You'll end up with less housing that way. Let alone the extra costs you're taxing on people who don't or cannot drive.

Flip the law around. Deny registering a car without proof of a parking spot. No spot for your car? No car for you.

The worse one is people that have garages and don't use them. Then they complain when their car gets dented by hail.

Nope, us urbanists are getting pretty tired of entitled people thinking they should get ~~free~~ taxpayer subsidized parking when there isn't enough room for all of the cars. City streets are some of the valuable land available and the city pays to maintain it, clean it, and hold it for private vehicles that do nothing to bring value to the neighborhood.

We saw during COVID how valuable that space could be. More walking space. Sidewalk cafes and outdoor dining. More space for people, not for cars.

If you want parking in a city then you should pay for it yourself. Either buy a home with a garage, pay to put it into a long term garage, or join the revolution of not using a car at all and push for better public transit instead. If my tax dollars should go anywhere, it's towards clean reliable transit instead of parking spaces for private vehicles.

I'm with OP. Public space belongs to the public, not to cars.