Now in a post-covid(ish) world, taking back some parking real estate space would be quite beneficial for a lot of cities I imagine. Would it bite cities later on in years to come?
Removing parking minimums does not mean "do not build parking". It means "build what the market demands". If there's huge demand in the future, it'll get built.
Exactly. The problem we mostly face now is we're building just to build/demanding that parking is built just because and we haven't examined the underlying assumptions or reasons for why we're mandating parking. It's really predicated on the idea of a car-only infrastructure but as we work to repair our cities we have to question that assumption and provide alternative mobility options so that our infrastructure isn't super fragile.
Still, I would be in favor of parking maximums. Not in number of parking spaces, but a limit on total acreage that may be lost to car storage. In more dense parts of the world, we have rooftop parking or multi-storey car parks. A concrete desert just for parking is such a non-optimal solution, it should go away completely.