[Photo: courtesy Bates Smart] One potential solution, he says, is to convert some of that parking into much-needed community space such as playgrounds, community gardens, and rooftop parks.

[Photo: ©Salem Mostefaoui ... in a $304 million project that will turn the mile-long street into what Mayor Anne Hidalgo calls “an extraordinary garden.” [Images: ©Salem Mostefaoui (left ...