All the giant surface parking lots around BART and Caltrain stations are a ridiculous waste of prime real estate. If they got rid of the surface parking lots, n

All the giant surface parking lots around BART and Caltrain stations are a ridiculous waste of prime real estate. If they got rid of the surface parking lots, narrowed nearby streets and eliminated most of the street parking, filled the 3-block radius with 3–6 story apartment buildings (ideally including a decent proportion of small studio and 1-bedroom apartments) with shops on the ground floor, and then let someone build a parking structure nearby, everyone would end up better off, especially “the taxpayer”. That would be by far the best way to make a dent in the Bay Area housing shortage.