Might be an unpopular opinion here, but the development Joni Mitchell describes in "Big Yellow Taxi" sounds better than the "paradise" it replaces. It has a pink hotel, a boutique, a swinging hot spot and a tree museum as well as the parking lot that she focuses her criticism on.

I'd like to know what the footfall for the new development is versus the "paradise" that was there before it. I'm sure it was nice, but if no one is actually going to see it, who cares?

Oh no, it turns out I was (unwittingly) ripping off a funnier Alan Partridge scene https://twitter.com/joesarling/status/1252898161355558912

Here's what happened. I was listening to BYT yesterday and heard the lyrics about the boutique and swinging hot spot, and realised I'd spent decades assuming they'd just built a car park in, I guess, the middle of nowhere. My tweet was about that, not a defence of the car park.