San Francisco restaurants face deadline with new parklet rules looming

While parklets have proven to be a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants in San Francisco are facing a deadline to keep their outdoor spaces, as the city implements new rules. Da Lin reports. (9/23/22)

[henryt]

Typical San Francisco. Charge honest people arm and a leg to run legitimate businesses and make their lives as stressful as possible, while giving away money hand over fist and laying out the red carpet for criminals who contribute nothing to society. Why anyone still has a business in that city, I have no idea.

[aeromtb]

they closed your business for 2 yrs and now they want more money.

[daveton]

Get out ! This is Pure Greedy, Those place suppose to be help you out temporary, there is no Free Real Estate ! @1:10 she have Nevers to build her tent Permanently!

[WhiskeyThieves]

Time for the city to make life harder for small business owners. This is why SF will never recover.

[chuckefunn]

San Francisco certainly doesn’t make it easy to do anything except being homeless

[Mike__B]

"Shared spaces program" I wonder how they came up with that name, the space is in no way shared as the city effectively leases it for the sole use of said restaurant and only restaurants next to it can do it. So it's less about sharing, and more about selling exclusive rights of public area to a private company. Now I could understand it during the pandemic as it was a way to comply with spacing rules (and by rules I mean recommendations) without crippling the business too much by taking away table space, but now that spacing rules are basically gone parklets should go too as restaurants/bars should be able to get back to their existing numbers INDOORS, return it to a TRUE shared spaces program meaning anyone can use it for up to 2 hours on a parking meter.

[popculturecurator]

"More foot traffic"= eliminating places for cars to park. If they don't want people to drive there. We gladly won't.

[qfmnd]

Damn, do they have to try and take every penny we make🤦🏽‍♂️ It’s a damn shame

[_runner]

why don't businesses get together to sue the god damn city?

[mmmountain]

who gives a shit we can't even legally protect ourselves anyway

[jeffbaca]

WOW, more hoops to jump thru coupled with a tax or permit process but yet the city hasn’t changed the percentage of homeless or rampant shoplifting but they’re so willing to clobber the working man.

[OMGFrijoles]

How many drinks would you have to sell to come up with $3000 for the parklet?

[bottom_crust]

Good clear up the spaces so people can freaking park

[MrBlastov]

will there be any requirements for safety barriers? water barriers or K-rails seem like a no brainer those things are death traps

[jasonyu]

wow at the bare minimium for 1 parklet, thats $5, 000!!!! I wonder if the owners are gonna raise the prices on the menu to make up for this and force customers to tip

[natalliaf]

$4, 500 for 2 parklet spots plus $2, 500 per year wonder why a beer cost $11

[Rainingdogsandcats]

The city should be obligated to put all parking fees back into safe park n rides with cameras and even a lot attendant. Here they been keeping it and not helping.

[dianethulin]

These parklettes turn sidewalks into alleyways. Now pedestrians are forced to walk between structures. This is bad for the public

[bobm]

How the god dam hell are we supposed to go to your restaurants if we can't park!?

[yahwaysaywhat]

maybe they should fund better public transit so that these spaces can be utilized by people rather than machinery. id rather walk down the road on a street where every business has one of these than just another 4 lane road filled with cars nobody can find a place to park. honestly its pretty cool gives more of a community vibe. people like sitting outside that's why these are popular its not just because of covid, these are desirable places to be. let these places providing jobs in the local community thrive. maybe we should learn from places that do it better lets not get rid of these lets get rid of the extra lane. use it for something that helps. how much public space do we need to use up before we realize that cities look feel and run better with things like this. getting the lane back for cars wont do anything for traffic. Its just a complaint from people who think cars=freedom and cannot conceive of the idea that they would be better off dropping the car for every day travel and calling their representatives to push for better public transit. there are plenty of civil engineers that can tell you and show you with data that more lanes do not = less traffic it just makes more people decide to drive. TL:DR take public transit its good for the community and if you don't have it push the people running the budget in your community to get it going they have the money.