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Tomorrow is the annual Park(ing) Day, brought to you by Rebar, in which companies and individuals transform local, metered parking spots into fun and creative green spaces for the day. Look for them on your way to work in the morning or on your lunch break, and the mobile PARKcycle will also be out and about. Check out SFist's gallery of last year's Park(ing) Day.
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Great and you can all come out tomorrow and watch as I turn some smug hipster's ironic statement back in to a parking space.
I wonder if each and every spot they plan to turn into a "park" has the proper permitting from MTA. I think I saw about a dozen or so spots planned, so it seems like that would be pretty expensive, but who knows.
If they're legitimate, then this is mildly annoying but generally tolerable. If they're illegitimate, then I hope they get cited as much as possible.
So long as they feed the meters I say good for them!
"feeding" the meter is apparently illegal. You can't stay in a metered spot longer than the posted time limit, even if the meter has not expired. So a 1-hour spot really means you can only park there for 1 hour, not just that you can only put 1 hour's worth of fare into the meter. It's just that's pretty hard to enforce, and generally MTA doesn't. But in this case it's pretty easy.
And This doesn't even bring up the legality of occupying a parking spot with something other than a motor vehicle. Ticket all of them I say.
I live right next to GGP and we do have a car that we keep in a garage and use for weekend trips out of town and shopping runs, one which we very rarely ever park on-street here in town. That said,
1. This looks like a fun, sort of interesting idea.
2. There is already quite a lot of "fun and creative green space" in this town. Not sure what they're doing there that they couldn't do on the thousands and thousands of acres of parkspace we already have.
3. There's not a lot of parking in this town.
4. This is very "look at me! look at me!" which kinda makes the supposed mission of it ring false.
Anyway, no skin off my nose.
Are you kidding me? All up and down nearly every street in the city there is public space allocated for storage of private cars. Not a lot of parking in this town, puh-leaze!
No, it's not so much "look at me! look at me!", perhaps more like "commune with me! commune with me!". People would theoretically cluster in cities for the advantages of interacting with each other. And not just for commercial transactions.
Not a lot of parking in this town, puh-leaze!
Street parking downtown? No, there's not particularly a lot of it, for better or for worse.
I guess I'm still curious why these would be better or more effective spots to "commune" with you than in GGP, the Panhandle, Alamo Square, Crissy Field, Delores Park, McLaren, Ocean Beach, etc etc. As it stands, I'm much less likely to "commune" with someone who is clearly making show, which is what this appears to be about to me. I'm as likely to begin chatting with a street juggler.
The point is to draw attention to how much space we waste on parking that could otherwise be used for more interesting things, like parks. That answers points 2 and 4: you can't do this in other "creative green space" because the message is about parking. And "look at me!" is exactly the point.
As for point 3, um. There's a fucking shit ton of parking in this city. Maybe there's not enough for all the cars, but every single street in this city has space allocated for parking, usually on both sides. Even with a lowball estimate, there has to be hundreds of thousands of square feet dedicated to parking in this city. Probably millions.
There's a fucking shit ton of parking in this city. Maybe there's not enough for all the cars,
Yeah. Maybe people should park their cars on Hippie Hill this weekend to draw attention to this pressing issue.
I don't get their point. There's little parking in SF as is--especially in the Mission where their protest is happening. Go to Phoenix or LA and you would have a point.
The culprit is how many buildings have garages. Garages are everywhere here.
Besides, there are already a ton of parks in SF...to say that there is not enough green space is ridiculous.