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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2768602, member: 716"]
This came up in a thread a year or so ago and I had some research on the subject that proved it to be a durable and popular myth. Found some notes:

"University Avenue Garage, built 2003, 818 spaces, replaced ~200 spaces and absorbed ~200 spaces on new Whitman site.
Irving Avenue Garage, built 1992, ~300 spaces, replaced frame buildings
Adams Street Garage, built 2006, 349 spaces, replaced houses, hillside, and ~50 surface spaces
Lehman lots, built 1996-2005, ~200 spaces, replaced buildings
Sheraton garage, built 1985, 301 spaces, replaced frame buildings (was temp parking for a semester or two before construction began)
Purchased HAR lot in 2014, ~150 spaces.

Lost ~175 spots on SUCOL lot and ~75 on Henry lot in 2011-2013, but both blocks were covered with buildings in the early 1980s. Gained ~40 with demolition of houses on Van Buren in 2012.

Former Crouse-Irving was demolished for construction of large private garage at Waverly and South Crouse in 1996.
Construction (1980s) and big expansion (2008) of VA garage replaced frame buildings.
Construction of several thousand spaces at Upstate (2005)."

This just takes into account big projects on or immediately next to campus and doesn't count the few dozen spots lost for Orange Grove construction in front of Bowne and Carnegie, but it shows that SU's had a better than 1-for-1 replacement of spots lost to building construction since 1980. They've way exceeded the number of spots that their 1979 agreement with the city requires them to maintain.
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