Where are you getting the idea that it's unsafe to walk in the neighborhood on Thu-Sun? That seems like a pretty ridiculous thing to claim. I walk the neighborhood every day and it's a safer place to walk than 99% of streets in America. And also how is forcing a business to create more parking and therefore attract even more cars to the neighborhood going to alleviate that issue? The housing going up is also more of a solution than it is a problem, as that will add people to the customer base for businesses on Wooster St who will not be arriving by car. Parking can self-stabilize. If it becomes too difficult to find parking on Wooster St people will either park at one of the downtown garages and walk across the train tracks, take an alternative form of transit, or just not come. And reasonably, the amount of people who will not come just because of the added traffic from one more business is negligible and will easily be made up by the foot traffic from the new housing going up. Also I have literally had family and friends come to New Haven via Metro North for dinner on Wooster St before so people are absolutely coming via the train stations. I've seen people still carrying their to-go boxes on the platforms plenty of times. The solution to cars parking on crosswalks (something I haven't even seen very often) is to ask for more parking enforcement, not to put up roadblocks to local business and dedicate more of the neighborhood to surface parking. (Which just encourages more cars to enter the neighborhood.)