Then we must ensure there are curbcuts for wheelchairs, walkers.. Not every house and residential building has immediate front door access. NYC and Toronto have streets like those. My parents had a house in Toronto ....they had to pay the city for parking spot curbside annually. There was not parking garage, driveway nor laneway at all. Many downtown older streets can be like that...not all. So they sometimes they walked a block ....finding a parking spot...was what was available at the time of parking along the street.

Short term front door parking (for a few hrs.) makes sense for hospitals, retirement homes, grocery stores, shopping malls, hotels, etc.

There are alternative street reconfigurations which is just not bike lane but putting a boulevard strip in the middle of road (or hey, it becomes a separated bike lane) or turning 1 side of the road 1 way....if it makes sense. That actually happened in our neighbourhood....

I am focusing on unrestricted free parking on a residential street... not metered paid parking. Where I live it's a 2 hr. limit. And they tow cars away that exceed the limit. I've seen the tow car.