[hawkice]

This has the potential to actually start people asking whether "free market solutions" make any sense in issues of public good. There are reasonable points to be made on this specific public parking issue (few of them shared with e.g. discussions of public healthcare, which is a philosophically related debate with completely different details). I hope the standard becomes "What works?", but perhaps that makes me naive.

That all being said, the only way San Francisco (or any other city) can possibly manage these problems is through a combination of taller buildings used as housing and excellent public transportation.