Been there done that. with the added twist that all the parking lots were city owned and required a parking permit, of which there were a limited number, to get one of the limited number of permits you had to get on a waiting list by filing a form in person a city hall and then wait and hope someone let theirs lapse. eventually got a call about one after a few years when already planing to move. in the mean time had to park on the street about four blocks away as anything closer was 2 hour parking.
Similar story with my home towns community college, where they had a habit of building new buildings on what used to be parking lots but refused for years to build new lots and when asked by the student counsel to build a parking structure the college president refused to consider it. I suspect if he hadn't had a had a reserved parking spot less the 30 yards from his office door his tune might have been different.
Isn't the clear implication you shouldn't own a car?