Wouldn't that just cause the clients that came by car (because of distance, health, whatever) to go somewhere else because there is no parking space? It looks to me like just another gentrification result. The new hip clients never needed those parking spots.
The problem with parking spots is that with single occupancy vehicles you're allocating 170 sq feet per customer for a few dollars. That's a terrible deal given real estate prices downtown.
Also very few people are going to drive a significant distance for tacos or ice cream.
Yes few people are going to drive significant distances for tacos or ice cream but people drive distances to shop and buy then tacos and ice cream. Those are also cars with a whole family in it. Try to park your van with 3 kids in it in that gentrificated area for some ice cream. But hell...you don't want those loud suckers in your fancy eco-cafe.
Upper class gentrification people don't need to drive to shop. They eat in restaurants or order online. Because they can afford it.
You are causing a separation of classes here again. The whole argument runs on it and the arrogant way this class handles that by writing such 1st world problem articles is disgusting.
