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There's a private club, so that will certainly have spaces. As for the restaurants and shops, I believe it's their option. Some condos, such as mine, don't have any parking for shoppers.
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Up here there is generally only parking for the public in condo garages if the condo has a supermarket or a major mall on it's bottom levels (Yonge-Eglinton Centre, Empress Walk, etc.). Occassionally though there is a "Green P" underground garage for the general public, but the public is forced to park on seperate levels than residents, and may even have a seperate garage entrance. It's extremely rare to see public parking in a condo that just has regular ground-floor retail here. That type of retail attracts mainly pedestrians and transit riders. Even if it is someone who drove to the area, they will have likely already parked on the street or in another garage somewhere, and will be visiting other shops/restaurants in the neighbourhood anyways, so parking isn't needed even if the stores do high volume sales. I suppose it could be beneficial to have public parking if that's the only retail in the neighbourhood, but it's hard to enivision such a scenario.
In any case the public parking is always pay parking. I've never seen free public parking at the bottom of a condo tower in the city. Sometimes though the parking charge is reduced or even eliminated if you spend enough money at the supermarket or other stores in condo mall.