However, as I walk down the street in my city, I see tons of retail businesses that definitely do not comply. 

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@Kevin Hintz It's property dependent, obviously, but last year, I sold one a street back from the beach that they're cash flowing.

The city may require more off-street parking as well.

Plus the street isn't a busy one.  

We have zip codes that have lower and and higher end areas within the same zip so not a good marker to use.Going along with that a lot of the neighborhoods are very street by street or change pretty quickly by block, so you have to be aware of that.

For example, I've had a couple of 3+ bedrooms sit for a longer period of time because they only had one parking space available (and no on-street options nearby).

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However, if you don't know the layout here, it's best to get with those that do as properties change street by street and sometimes even on the same street.

There have definitely been some upgrades in the park itself and there were some new restaurants/hotels and they did try to make the streets nicer.