The BMC is rethinking its plan of creating parking lots under open spaces after facing opposition from locals to its plan to build them under public parks. The civic body, meanwhile, floated a tender for a multi-level parking lot behind Patwardhan Park in Bandra West. It has also floated tenders for a robo parker system at Flora Fountain and BMC Engineering Hub at Worli. The BMC had made a provision in the evelopment Control and Promotion Regulations (DCPR) 2034 for allowing underground parking below recreation grounds and playgrounds.

The civic body came up with a comprehensive policy to create parking lots underneath open spaces in 2019 after stiff opposition by Bandra residents against the creation of a parking lot under Patwardhan Park in 2018. Byculla locals similarly opposed the establishment of a parking lot beneath Jhula Maidan. The 2019 policy also states that the BMC should try to avoid creating underground parking lots below already-developed gardens.