Apparently, looks really do matter when it comes to parking garages. Especially if they’re in residential neighborhoods. After considerable hand-wringing and an unprecedented vote of residents who live near the half-built parking garage at 916 Garden St., it was with some elation that the Parking Authority announced that a design for the garage’s facade had been selected. The design of the $6 million garage’s street-facing wall had become part of the controversy swirling around the new 324-space parking structure when Parking Authority Commissioners decided recently to scrap the design that was originally proposed in favor of a design drawn by Hoboken architect Dean Marchetto. Commissioners said that Marchetto had been hired to re-design the facade because the original design did not provide a space for residents to enter or exit the building except through the garage doors that cars were intended to use. When Marchetto presented the new fa