Nowadays I read Kafka as a utopian vision of how saner government might
work.

My aunt lives 600 metres from a tube station, and IME the street has always
been fully parked on both sides. The street has recently been made residents
parking only. There is now at most one car parked in the whole street! It
turns out that in a street of 40 houses, only one person actually owns a
car, so both sides of an entire street have been reserved for a single car!