I would be very surprised if one in ten people knew about the ludicrous minimum parking requirements some municipalities place on businesses.
I work with a lot of business and only heard about this problem a few years ago, and was really only vaguely aware of it until last year when a customer of mine - a manufacturer - moved to a new location and was forced by the city to construct something like 120 parking spots. This, mind you, was a manufacturing facility, not a retail outlet, so there are few people ever showing up who are not employees. At PEAK periods they had 35-40 people on site. The absolute maximum number of workers who could possibly have worked there would be, oh, maybe sixty, if they really planned the layout well. But the city wanted 120 parking spots.
What’s fascinating about minimum parking requirements is that they appear to be wholly arbitrary or based on assumptions that are dubious at best and flatly imbecilic at worst. Business after business complains about them and they quite frequently cannot be rationally defended, but believe me; when you are dealing with municipal government, you are dealing with the absolute bottom of the professional food chain, and evidence and logic will get you nowhere.
An excellent study on the matter: