No Parking in San Francisco Condominium - Parking Permits
A reader asks:There is no parking in the condominium building I am considering buying. How do I get a permit to park on the street in San Francisco?
Our reply:
On their website, the City of San Francisco says, "The preferential residential parking system was established in 1976 to preserve neighborhood living within a major urban center. It is designed to promote the safety, health and welfare of all San Francisco residents by reducing unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel, noise and pollution, and by promoting improvements in air quality, convenience and attractiveness of urban residential living, and increased use of public mass transit. The program’s main goal is to provide more parking spaces for residents by discouraging long-term parking by people who do not live in the area. There are now 27 residential permit areas in the City. "
After all this wonderful rhetoric, the parking permit system is just another way for the City to generate revenue. They continue, "You are eligible to purchase a permit for your vehicle if you live in an established residential permit parking area. A clear indication that you live in a permit parking area is if a residential permit parking sign is displayed on your block. However, some addresses on meteredstreets are eligible where signs will not be posted. To confirm whether or not your address is eligible for a permit, call the Traffic Engineering Division at 701-4686. A block not currently part of an RPP area may be included in one through a petitioning and legislativeprocess that takes approximately six months."
To be fair, the law was originally created because people who lived outside of San Francisco and worked in the City would drive in, park their cars and then take public transit to their jobs leaving no parking for the people who lived in the different neighborhoods.
There are restrictions on the number of permits that will be issued per address (currently limited to 4 per address) but exceptions may be filed to the Department of Public Transit. There are also limitations if you are a business. Check the San Francisco City website for the latest details.
- Janis Stone
posted by SFResidence.com @ 12:41 PM
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