a plague of parking

What's with the all of the parking lots in Central Square? I mean, look at this:


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All of the blue areas are bulk (more than 10 spaces) surface parking. Red areas are parking garages. Hit the Sat button to get confirmation of what's actually under these shapes.

It's a blight, really, and no one seems to notice it. Some of the lots have nice young trees planted at the curbs and medians to pretty things up a bit. Some of them are public lots. A bunch of them are owned and used by Quest Diagnostics - which is all well and good. But really now - what a ghastly waste of urban land.