Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

Personal Garages Become Cafes in the Castro, Thanks to Smarter Zoning

By Aaron Bialick | | 29 Comments
Three new cafes and restaurants in the Castro have been created in spaces formerly used as personal parking garages. Driveways and dark garage doors on 18th Street have been replaced with storefronts and inviting patios filled with people. A few years ago, this would’ve been illegal. Reveille Coffee Company and Beso, a tapas restaurant, were […]

Car-Free Households Are Booming in San Francisco

By Aaron Bialick | | 78 Comments
San Francisco is quickly adding residents, but very few cars. Between 2000 and 2012, the city has seen a net increase of 11,139 households, and 88 percent of them have been car-free. That’s according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by Michael Rhodes, a transportation planner at Nelson\Nygaard and a former Streetsblog reporter. One net result […]

DCCC Joins Quickly Growing Opposition to Cars-First Prop L

By Aaron Bialick | | 9 Comments
Prop L was slammed by the SF Democratic County Central Committee last night, via an almost-unanimous vote against endorsing the measure to “restore transportation balance” for motorists. The DCCC’s endorsements hold a lot of sway, and its resounding “no” vote on the measure was a key litmus test to see whether the Republican-backed measure would garner any sympathy from […]

Want More Parking in SF? Be Careful What You Wish For

By Aaron Bialick | | 42 Comments
The backers of Prop L think San Francisco can “restore balance” to its transportation system by, for example, building more parking garages. So what would SF’s neighborhoods look like, if only they dedicated more real estate to hulking monoliths of automobile storage? Tony Wessling used his photoshop skills to simulate that reality, and posted the “frightening […]
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