Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bar Casements Wins Right to Extend Their Back Patio Hours Later Into the Evening The Mission Street Irish cocktail bar Casements recently got permission to keep their back patio open, but only until 10 pm. On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors extended their patio hours until 11 pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends, though with a lot of requirements.
Arts & Entertainment Page Slow Street Gets Sweet New Public Parklet, First One in SF That’s Fully Open to the Public SF’s new completely public parklet has opened on Page Street near Golden Gate Park, as that designated Slow Street gets a public parklet with benches, plants, and a tiny free library.
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Waiving the First Year of Parklet Permit Fees Bars, restaurants, and other businesses will have to pay permit fees for their “shared spaces” parklets starting April 1, but Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to eliminate that few-thousand dollar fee before it goes into effect.
SF News Paid Parklet Permit System Hits Application Deadline, Most SF Businesses Intend To Keep Their Parklets The free ride is over for San Francisco parklets, but now that businesses must pay $2,000 a year for each parking space their parklet occupies, nearly 80% of current parklet owners are still opting to keep them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Be Gone By Spring With new rules, mandated alterations, and fees looming, you can expect to see some of San Francisco's plethora of pandemic parklets disappear in the next six to eight months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining Parklets Becoming Permanent, But New Permits and Costs Are Looming While the “Shared Spaces” program is spawning permanent, lovely parklets in SF and the greater Bay Area, a quagmire of new permits, regulations, and costs will be kicking in soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News Purse Snatching at Cow Hollow Parklet Leads Directly to Victim's Car Being Stolen A woman sitting in a parklet outside Balboa Cafe with two friends last week had her purse snatched by a thief in a vehicle that pulled up beside the parklet — and the crime didn't end there.
SF Politics Breed Picks Fight With Chronicle Over Alleged ‘Misinformation’ in Shared Spaces Red Tape Exposé After the Chronicle ran a report noting that 90% of the city’s Shared Spaces parklets “will need to be removed or significantly changed” under new regulations, Breed ran to rant on Medium and called the report “misinformation.”
SF News SF Resumed Peak-Hour Towing Enforcement Today Another local law that was temporarily tossed out during COVID went back into effect Monday, and your car could now again be towed if parked in restricted peak-hour areas.
SF News Fire at Abandoned Van Ness Parklet Deemed ‘Suspicious’ by SFFD The parklet outside the shuttered August 1 Five restaurant was ablaze early Saturday morning, and the fire department says the incident is "suspicious in nature."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parklets Are Here to Stay, Everybody The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to make the city's pandemic parklets all permanent fixtures — and they voted 6-5 to allow businesses to lock them up at night, something that was argued over for about two hours.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant Cries Foul After PG&E Forces Removal of Parklet An Outer Sunset restaurant is complaining that the SF Department of Public Works and PG&E showed little sympathy for their small business in demanding the removal of a parklet they spent thousands of dollars to construct.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Become Permanent, But Supervisors Are Keen on Imposing More Rules The 2,100 new Shared Spaces and parklet platforms around San Francisco are potentially becoming permanent fixtures, but if the Board of Supervisors has their way there will likely be a host of new restrictions and regulations.
SF Politics Breed Vows to Make ‘Shared Spaces’ Parklets Permanent, Threatens Parklet Ballot Measure After a Board of Supervisors subcommittee recommended a two-week delay to fine-tune parklet legislation, Breed went nuclear saying they wanted to “butcher my legislation” and threatened to override them with a ballot measure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Car Crashes Into Parklet at Mission Bar, At Least One Person Injured A car plowed into a parklet outside the Napper Tandy pub on South Van Ness Avenue at 24th Street Monday, and it appears one person was injured in the accident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Introduces Legislation to Make SF Parklets Permanent SF Mayor London Breed announced proposed legislation Friday that will extend indefinitely the popular Shared Spaces program, allowing bars and restaurants across the city the keep the outdoor parklet spaces they've built and for new ones to be permitted as well.
SF News Parklet Nails Snag Valencia Street Bar Into Twitter Dust-Up, Nails Now Removed The social media pitchforks came out when Valencia Room was accused of using sharp nails to deter loitering in their parklet, but the nails are now removed and the bar insists vandals did the nailing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Backlash Grows Over Bay Area Restaurant and Business Closures, In Spite of COVID Surge Concerns Anger, sadness, and lots of financial pain and resentment are going around in San Francisco and several neighboring counties after new health orders that took effect Sunday night.
SF News Report: San Franciscans Spend 83 Hours Per Year Looking For Parking San Franciscans have plenty to bitch, moan, and complain about when it comes to parking in our traffic-congested Bay Area, what with rampant abuse of disabled placards, bizarrely inconsistent enforcement, and those infernal
SF News Proposed Fillmore And California Parklet/Arch Would Recall Similar Historic Structures Is it just me, or is there a bit of a parklet arms race going on these days? For some years, cafes and restaurants have been upping the ante in terms of their
SF News Hayes Valley To Get Three New Parklets Late Next Year The San Francisco Planning Department recently approved three new parklets for Hayes Valley, but due to a planned city construction project in the area, residents and shoppers will likely have to wait until
SF News Co-Living Concept In SoMa Becomes Traditional Apartments, Will Still Feature Leather-Themed Plaza Remember this upscale commune thing that was being planned by BUILD Inc. for 1532 Harrison? The original plan was to build 235 units in nine separate pods that would share kitchens and common
SF News SF's Dwindling Number Of Parking Spaces, By The Numbers There are a lot of reasons the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency says they remove parking places in San Francisco, from efforts to improve pedestrian visibility at dangerous intersections to parklets to "part-time
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 10 Prettiest Parklets Ever since the San Francisco Planning Commission opened the floodgates with their Pavement to Parks initiative five years ago, our city has been awash with adorable, tiny parklets. These micro-parks widen our sidewalks
