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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
Planning Commission Upholds Market/Octavia Parking Limits in Key Test
In a major test of the Market and Octavia Area Plan and of the city's parking policy, the Planning Commission unanimously rejected a developer's request last week for far more parking than is allowed, even with a conditional use permit.
May 17, 2010
Could Showing Merchants the Money Make Parking Meter Trials Palatable?
In his magnum opus, The High Cost of Free Parking, UCLA Professor Donald Shoup argues that city parking managers will build merchant support for extending parking meter hours and pricing them according to demand if they return some or all of the extra revenue to the merchant corridors where it was collected.
May 7, 2010
MTA Could Boost Revenue by Enforcing Downtown Commuter Parking Law
You'd hardly know that it's illegal to charge discounted daily and monthly parking rates at numerous downtown San Francisco garages because enforcement of the law is almost non-existent.
March 31, 2010
SFMTA Board Extends Fiscal Emergency, Eyes Parking Meter Extension
The SFMTA Board of Directors voted to continue the agency's declaration of fiscal emergency today, but took a proposal to charge a premium for cable cars and express bus routes off the table, and promised to use some of the $36 million expected from a state windfall to help "defray or delay" a 10 percent service cut scheduled to take effect in a month
March 30, 2010
San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces
No sizable city in the country, or likely the world, has been able to say with any certainty how many parking spaces it has, public or private, until now. Over the last 18 months, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) has tallied every publicly accessible parking space within city limits, including free and metered spaces on-street and every publicly accessible garage [PDF map].
March 29, 2010
Smart Parking Policy Makes a Difference, Even in Livable Streets Utopias
The evidence keeps mounting that smart parking policy is an essential tool in the fight to curb traffic. A new study of two German neighborhoods indicates that managing the supply of parking can make streets more livable, even in places that already have great infrastructure for transit, walking, and biking. Eliminating mandatory parking minimums, the … Continued
March 24, 2010
Better Streets Plan Provisions Stripped from Chiu Garage Legislation
In a move to gain the support of Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu has stripped language from his proposed garage legislation that would have ensured all new garage additions to existing buildings in Chinatown, North Beach and Telegraph Hill conform with Better Streets Plan (BSP) guidelines.
March 18, 2010
Supervisors Delay Final Vote on Garage Legislation for Another Week
For a second time in two weeks, the Board of Supervisors today delayed a final vote on legislation that would impose stricter rules on the construction of new garages in Chinatown, North Beach and
Telegraph Hill. Unlike the first delay, however, the Board voted to make a small amendment to the measure today, passing the amended bill on first reading. It will be back next week for a final vote.
March 9, 2010
Supervisors to Take Final Vote on Garage Legislation Tomorrow
The Board of Supervisors will vote tomorrow on legislation
that would limit new garages in Chinatown, North Beach and
Telegraph Hill.
March 8, 2010