Quote Originally Posted by Just the facts View Post
All parking should be open to the public during non-business hours. If the property owner wants to make a few extra dollars then they can post a parking attendant or install a pay station. There is no bigger waster of resources than to have 10,000 surface parking spaces not be used on evening and weekends.
Absolutely wrong! I have no duty to provide parking to anyone except my own customers. I especially have no duty or responsibility to provide a spot for people to leave their trash, pee on the bushes, or vomit when they come out of somebody else's business intoxicated. Businesses have a responsibility to their own customers to provide access and parking. They should be paying to rent those spaces and providing clean up if they don't have adequate resources. What next....I should provide public bathrooms for non customers?