You’re joking right? We’ve never had parking just because. It’s always been there to serve the needs of whatever it’s next to. In the case of retail, it’s to su

You’re joking right? We’ve never had parking just because. It’s always been there to serve the needs of whatever it’s next to. In the case of retail, it’s to support the shops, period. We’ve had mechanically metered parking since the 1940s, and manually paid for parking before that. Something has to pay for all that concrete.