map of parking around uptown waterloo

D: the amount of parking within a coupla blocks of uptown is huge.
Why does the city feel a need to spend 10s of millions to make more?!

Aside: I counted all the bike stands uptown Waterloo. It was less than on-road car parking, on one block, one ONE side of the street!

The placement of signposts does not generally seem to consider car doors and such.

I spoke to a cafe owner uptown. Actually, he didn't like the idea of more greenery. It seems the store name is hard to see through foliage.
He pointed out there were multiple green park areas within a few blocks.