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San Francisco Congestion Pricing Plan to Be Shopped at Public Meetings
While the full results of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority's (SFCTA) congestion pricing plan, the SF Mobility, Access, and Pricing Study (SFMAPS), have not yet been released, the agency will hold a series of public meetings starting next week to discuss the general principles of congestion pricing and how it could work in San Francisco. At the public meetings, the SFCTA will detail several possible scenarios to charge drivers for driving into San Francisco's downtown during peak periods, a prospect that should spark significant public and media debate.
July 20, 2010
800-Seat Performance Space in Hayes Valley Approved with No Parking
The same neighborhood organizations and community advocates that routinely lobby to prevent the San Francisco Planning Department from granting parking exceptions in excess of progressive neighborhood plans were thrilled with a new project to build a 3-story building in the heart of Hayes Valley, the future home of SF Jazz, a non-profit arts organization. The primary reason the neighbors were so excited was because the project sponsors are building an 800-seat auditorium, with office and rehearsal space, but they aren't adding a single new parking space.
July 16, 2010
The Rationale for No Parking: A Q&A With the 1050 Valencia St. Developer
Last week we reported on the proposed 5-story development at 1050 Valencia Street, on the corner of Hill street and the current location of Spork Restaurant, which stimulated a lot of reader comments.
July 15, 2010
Proposed Developments Illustrate San Francisco’s Parking Dilemma
At another marathon Planning Commission meeting last week, parking was all the rage. Two projects in particular had community members and housing and transit advocates fired up because of the parking that developers proposed to build, or in one case, to not build.
July 12, 2010
UCSF Parking Garage Will Add 230 Spaces in Lower Pacific Heights
When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) counted all the publicly available parking spaces in San Francisco, city planners argued one of the more significant benefits of such a comprehensive study would be to put to rest speculative arguments about whether or not there was "enough parking" in a given neighborhood. Without a baseline of parking supply, the argument ran, the concern of neighbors or advocates about too much or too little parking wouldn't be based on good data.
June 23, 2010
UCSF to Hold Public Meeting About Parking Garage Proposal on Sutter
Streetsblog tipsters have been sending numerous emails about a public meeting tonight at UCSF's Mt. Zion campus auditorium, concerned that a proposed 6-story building with 7 levels of parking that will add 230 new parking spaces.
June 22, 2010
Emotional Debate Over New Parking Meters at Marathon SFMTA Hearing
Very little is as emotional in city-government policy making as parking and today's San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency hearing on the addition of 1310 new meters was no exception.
June 18, 2010
SFMTA to Hold Hearing for Additional 1310 Parking Meters
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has scheduled an administrative hearing later this month so it can move forward with the installation of 1310 new single-space parking meters that accept credit cards, while extending time limits at those meter locations to four hours. The meters are expected to net the agency approximately $1 million annually, some of which will go to fund Muni.
June 8, 2010
The ‘Heart of SFPark’ Complete with Vehicle Sensor Installation
When parking expert Donald Shoup publicized his principle several years ago that cities should manage the demand for curbside parking by adjusting the cost so that there was always an available space, he probably didn't think a large city like San Francisco would move from theory to practice so quickly, nor that the city's SFPark pilot program would be as sophisticated as it is.
June 1, 2010
New Parking App Maps Garages and Meters in San Francisco
When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages city parking policies, completed the first-ever count of all the publicly available parking spaces in San Francisco, the agency hoped software developers would use the data to create apps to reduce the delays to transit caused by drivers circling the block in search of parking. Through the SFPark pilot, the SFMTA intends to make it easier and clearer for drivers where available parking is located so they spend less time in traffic and less time creating traffic.
May 18, 2010