Enough said. Let's get moving on converting surface parking lots while waiting for "development" to happen.

Document, Parking Infrastructure and the Environment, addresses the difficulties in "estimating the monitized health and environmental costs of parking infrastructure."  They do estimate the effects of parking in typical high-impact urban and low-impact rural counties.  In terms of costs "everyone bears this cost in the form of adverse health impacts..."

Parking structures are not environmentally neutral additions to the built environment.

They are unhealthy for the people of our city, especially those living close by. The last thing we need to do in terms of our future is encourage auto dependence.