True enough, but I was just stating from a point of view that not everybody looks at a condo/apartment building as a thing of beauty, whether it's better for the urban environment or not. Surface parking seems like a waste to me when land is scarce, but in a more suburban or rural environment I don't mind it at all.
To be honest, until I started visiting this forum, I had never heard anybody speak of surface parking lots as though they were some sort of bane on society as if they were thrust upon us by the devil himself... but here it's just about to that level...
