[Spooky23]

My city (NOT New York City) did residential parking in a couple of areas. It helped eliminate the issue of certain workers in nearby-ish businesses stalking residents.

But, parking still sucks, and it hurt businesses significantly. Probably half of the restaurants in the area that I'm thinking of closed down after the parking change. Although the rules are fairly lenient (2-hour parking is permitted in most places), people just stay away.

Parking sucks because in this city there's no permitting for housing units and no actual way to limit or have costs associated with permits. You just need to prove residency -- so you may be one of 12 tenants in a "two family" building.

[yabadabadoes]

Given how bizarre the US is, I suspect the only option in most cases is to assign the rights to spaces to the adjacent buildings and then use them as a factor in value and therefore local tax.

Once this is done, there's no place to park at virtually everyone's destination and a few people end up paying a lot up front and in tax for multiple spaces while everyone else gives up on cars..

The end result is a much more substantial effective road tax while avoiding all the reasonable compromises.

[Spooky23]

I doubt it.

The big problem here is that you have well-intentioned, intelligent people who are ultimately correct re: cars. Then you have reality, where millions people are dependent on them, and trillions in wealth are based on ready access to cars.

In a democracy, the magic and challenge of governance is balancing the long term needs of society with the current needs of the electorate. For this issue, that means the solutions and the implementation will be messy.