Why are there mandatory parking spaces in the first place? Where is it in the Constitution that the government shall make demands of private property or tell businesses how to run their parking lots? If businesses find disabled patrons want those parking spaces they can decide to provide them. Why is it that people with disabilities can park at a large complex like a mall but demand up front parking? Of all the people I can have seen parking in them maybe 0.0001% are actually people with real disabilities such as motorized chairs. The rest just get their doctor to write them the excuse to get the blue placard.
Sorry, that argument “you can tell”.
You can tell no such thing.
It is not possible to “look at someone and know”.
My Dad had a place card. You would have never known he was disabled.
He stood straight and walked flawlessly, that’s how it appeared anyway.
Yet, he was in extreme pain do to a broken back (four times) and fused discs as a result of war injuries, which make walking more than 20 feet or so painful for him.
So just because you think something doesn’t make it so.
And a person can park in the handicap spot to retrieve someone inside the store who needs the spot.
Lupus sufferes can look perfectly normal and still have a reasonable need for handicapped parking. Exposure to the sun aggravates lupus. I once knew a woman who spent a year in a wheelchair due to a major lupus attack. She avoided the sun religiously and I had no problems with her using a handicapped spot.