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Locals love this [Balwyn] cafe parklet. Businesses want the three car spaces back (12ft.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To me, this makes no sense. Endeavours like this make a shopping district far more attractive for people to visit and they’ll likely spend money in other businesses. So it benefits everyone.

But I find it difficult to believe a shopper will skip visiting a place because they can’t get a park right outside instead of walking around a side street corner.

(And somehow they manage to tell the shop that they didn’t visit? Either shops are lying or the customer visited eventually, so what’s the issue?)