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I think a better conversation would be how the city can develop some system for the public to utilize all these private parking garages in a more seamless way so we can lose more street parking for bigger sidewalks, protected bike/scooter lanes and transit lanes. It would be nice if there was a central way to pay and a way to know what garages had openings. I posted a parking study last year that IIRC, said there was a ton of under utilized parking garages.

I agree that coming up with design guidelines would be better. I think the Parsley Oil building went from a terrible podium to a great one. I think the Austonian's podium looks fine. There should be a way to prevent builders from going with the cheapest route possible when it comes to ventilation on the podiums like we saw with 3rd and Schoal.