Is there any way to regulate the overall number of vehicles in a neighborhood?
• A: Only indirectly, by discouraging the ownership of cars via residential parking permits or planning policies such as allowing new housing units to be built without parking spaces included. Also, it is possible to limit the number of on-street parking spaces in a neighborhood or to ban parking along a street entirely. Amending the SF transportation code to provide for directly regulating the number of vehicles in a neighborhood would require legislative action.
