More likely, this asinine move will end all discretionary trips to downtown. Downtown merchants will be closing up shop, and relocating to the suburban malls.
Never really been to DT Austin, but my city, Tulsa, does have a surplus of parking because of zoning regulations. Not just in Downtown but also in the strip malls where more than half the spaces are never full.
Is this not just an easing of zoning regulations? Can the property owner make more parking if he chooses?
The article mentions rail. Does Austin have rail?
Yep. Which is probably what they should do ASAP anyway.