Parking in Waterloo Region

[mpd618]

The Uptown core is always going to have a need for a certain degree of parking.  Has anyone seen general figures for how much parking (paid/free; covered/outdoor etc) is ideal for a downtown area?  For instance, if even half of a 100-person workplace's staff walk/bike/transit, that still means that there would be a need for 50 parking spots somewhere nearby.

There really can't be a single answer. It depends on a lot, especially on land value and the transportation system leading to the downtown, and there's a feedback cycle with those things. And while there have been a number of North American downtown that have improved as the amount of parking (created in the 60s and 70s) has gone down, I haven't heard of any that have hit some lower bound for reasonableness.