Todd Gloria is a little bitch and always caves to businesses and developers. Case in point: Jack in the Box debacle in North Park.
The apartment I lived in was built in the 20's, and it was a 2 bed with no offstreet parking above a shop. It was fantastic! It made a lot of sense since my wife and I wanted to live car-free. Unfortunately it would be illegal to build now, and SD would have required two parking spots for it (at most we only ever owned one car).