This reminds me of how SF killed the electric scooter business. This is why we can't have nice things. America wants you to own a car, and drive it.
More often than not, they ended up in roads, across sidewalks blocking access, thrown in parking spots, in lakes rivers and other deep-enough bodies of water, thrown off parking structures, and more.
And in my city, both Bird and Lime came in the city on flatbed trucks between 4-5AM and offloaded them en masse. Where I come from, that's abandoning trash. Had they work with the city, this rollout couold have gone loads smoother and not start by trashing the public commons...
But in reality, thats what Silly-con valley companies do - they exfiltrate good will and good things like public commons and take it for themselves, all the while screaming that they're being wronged when people take, disassemble, throw in trash their littered goods.
1. Store private goods permanently on the public commons?
2. Hinder the use of the public commons for long-term?
3. Treat the public commons as a refuse-dump?
4. Privatize the gains while socialize the losses?
What if instead of banning a new transportation paradigm, the city had decided to work with the companies to convert 1/4 of the public parking spaces to scooter storage areas?
Another solution would be to arrest and prosecute these anti-social types trashing things. Just go all out against them. I routinely saw Limes and Birds being knocked over en masse by these idiots. It's why we can't have nice things.