Last Wednesday I attended CBT’s discussion session with Supercity mayoral candidate Len Brown. That went well and I was encouraged by what he had to say.
Details can be found on the CBT forum.

Briefly discussed was the idea of subsidised parking.
For readers who have come from CBT, you’ve all seen this before as Josh Arbury has already posted it and some of us went to Julie-Anne Genter’s presentation.
However I believe some people from my work and a couple of friends are reading this too (hi!) – you may find this video of interest. It’s called “How free is your parking?”

Think for a second … How much of the land and buildings that make up Glenfield Mall is used for retail, and how much for carparking? How much would that land be worth? Are we using it efficiently? How much is that land worth, and what else could we be doing with that land if we didn’t park our cars on it?

Here’s an aerial view of the land use in the Manukau CBD (also by Josh Arbury).
Green is public space, red is buildings (retail, office, any productively used land really) and grey is roads and carparking. Note that this doesn’t even count motorway land:

I bet you’ll never look at a carpark the same way again.