San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency<\/a> (SFMTA), the program began marking off spaces over the summer, docking the participating car-share businesses an installation fee of $400 for paint and signage. Monthly permit fees of $50 to $225 are also assessed and are based on a space\u2019s proximity to the city\u2019s downtown.<\/p>\nThe car-share companies are additionally required to charge customers an hourly rate to prevent rental car companies from colonizing the allotted spots, which are assigned to specific vehicles. The businesses must also guarantee that the cars will be available for sharing 75% of the time so that the spaces aren\u2019t used simply for storage.<\/p>\n
Despite the conditions imposed upon the program, the public hasn\u2019t embraced it warmly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d said Jerri Jerome, a resident of San Francisco\u2019s Richmond neighborhood, where twenty-two parking spots were converted to car-share spaces in mid-September.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody kills each other for parking out here, so it\u2019s going to have a huge impact,\u201d said Spiros Johnson, owner of 25th & Clement Produce, a market\u00a0in the district.<\/p>\n
The recently converted spaces are located along Clement Avenue near 24th<\/span>\u00a0Avenue so are likely to impact Johnson\u2019s store. Jerome agreed: \u201cI think it would be challenging for the drivers and the customers to these businesses.\u201d<\/p>\nBrent O\u2019Brien believes the opposite. \u201cFor the neighborhoods and the merchants, hopefully what it means is a reduction in some of the parking pressures that they see,\u201d said the director of member experiences for City CarShare.<\/p>\n
SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose is quick to point out that the car-share spaces are not intended to place undue burden on any one neighborhood. \u201cOur goal is have them disbursed evenly and balanced throughout the entire city of San Francisco,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But that democratic tack doesn\u2019t impress SF resident Phillip Chang, who sees the car-share spaces as \u201ca waste of a parking spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t see that many car-share cars around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Each shared car takes dozens more off the road, transit officials like to respond, and with car-share companies reporting steady growth in the Bay area, the city\u2019s program is unlikely to go away any time soon. Residents and businesses may simply have to suffer through its growing pains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The parking-lot business is feeling the heat of San Francisco\u2019s real estate market: private lots are being sold for new development, lowering the number of parking spaces in the city. That trend is affecting the public\u2019s view of San Francisco\u2019s car-sharing initiative. Announced in the spring, the program reserves 900 on-street parking spots for three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[410,409,133,193,413,408,593,412],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-2","tag-carsharing","tag-getaround","tag-parking","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-bay-area","tag-san-francisco-municipal-transportation-agency","tag-sfmta","tag-zipcar"],"yoast_head":"\n
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