Parking minimum
Many places in the U.S. have a parking minimum regulation, which states that a business (or any building) must build a certain minimum parking facility. The original intension was to prevent the situation where there’s not enough parking and cars overflow into nearby roads and other buildings.
However, a critical assumption behind this is that more or less everyone drives and will drive. An important unintended consequence is that more parking you provide, you induce more demand for driving. Moreover, Free parking is not free. It is expensive.
Parking minimum has been identified as a big contributor to car-centric urban design and a negative contributor to the local economy. Simply put, Parking destroys cities.
https://parkingreform.org is an organization that helps activists and professionals regarding parking policies and laws.