Disappearing parking in NYC

...hopefully translates into disappearing cars. This article talks about parking lot owners selling to developers.

I recently saw a presentation that turned the idea of "parking as a right" into "parking as a privilege." It was given by a professor at a university in Vienna, and to make his point, he showed pictures of parking rates in parking lots in Manhattan, and then showed what it cost to park on the street. (His agenda is that streets should be given more to pedestrians with wider sidewalks, and public transit, rather than private cars). What do land use policy makers think of this?