FHIW, my experience in working with NYC retail owners is that the customer coming from greatest distances drives (pretty naturally the case), and so the owner views parking (unconsciously I think) as extending the store's catchment area. It's difference of marginal vs avg.
1/2 https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1380622892514312195

E.g., mother with 3 kids driving to Park Slope from Bay Ridge to clothing shop. She is big spender and valuable customer. I can't argue she would have taken the R train and walked up the hill. Same for suburban diners driving to restaurant in Flushing Qns or Arthur Ave/Bronx.

Talking this through with merchants can get to changing street uses (NYC certainly has). Emphasis on talking it through.