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Remember that picrel is kind of brainlet we're dealing with...
I think dropping parking minimums and letting "the market" sort things out is great. Particularly since the kind of parking promoted by minimums (large, sprawling lots with minimal capital investment) is directly harmful due to stormwater runoff.
There are more capital-intensive ways to handle parking that could be viable in an open market, but are stymied by the policy-level subsidies to parking (both minimums and street parking). Like car elevators, or dynamic space assignment (assigned parking spaces, but the assignments are made close to the moment they are needed with the assistance of statistical models, and perhaps a neighbourhood auction market to rent "overflow" spaces during surges at one property).
Like, take a look at how airports and their communities address parking. Airports are one of the industries that largely circumvented parking minimums (blurred regulatory authority between levels of government, land assignments made almost a century ago, densification of airports that could never have been foreseen at their founding). But airports have very sophisticated parking infrastructures, often with high leveraging of capital investments. They have shuttle services, "public transit," competing private providers, valet services, tons of secondary businesses involving vehicles that also need their own parking. No, parking at the airport is very rarely free. But it is frequently excellent.
