Increasing the cost of parking and offloading city garages could shrink budget shortfall

Suggestions from advocates for closing a $68 million SFMTA deficit

SFCTA survey asking for input on proposal to charge fee to vehicles driving downtown

San Francisco is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements — a win for pedestrians and affordable housing advocates.

On December 11, 2018, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance (the “Ordinance”) eliminating required parking minimums citywide for all uses. The vote was 7-4, with Supervisors Cohen, Safai, Stefani, and Yee voting against it. Mayor Breed signed the Ordinance on December 21 and it went into effect on January 21. Those in favor of […]

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is asking San Francisco leaders to allow restaurants to temporarily expand outdoors as shelter-in-place lifts.

A proposed condo and hotel project would put a driveway and garage entry on a stretch of Natoma Street, between First and Second streets, that’s now effectively car-free. That is angering champions of bike lanes and walkable streets.

Mayor London Breed touts longer meter hours, "congestion pricing" as fixes for traffic in spite of driver ire.

The San Bruno Avenue Multimodal Improvement Project turned a scruffy neighborhood in San Francisco’s Portola district into a vision of the city’s future: wide sidewalks, “bulb-out” curbs, fewer parking spaces.

San Francisco is struggling with a herculean task: creating as much housing as possible to make up for decades of underproduction. But the enormous cost of building in the city has meant developers can’t create nearly enough affordable or market-rate homes.

There are currently 228 parking spaces in the podium of the 227-unit Bay Towers building at 388 Beale Street, the majority of which are tucked away behind the vented semi-circles on the third and fourth floors of the 20-story building which was developed in 1999. But plans to remove 44 of the Bay Tower’s parking […]

Suburbanization and auto dependency have major problems. An alternative, the walkable neighborhood system, is one of a number of ideas designed to inc…

Curb space in city centers is a scarce resource. And as demand for this space increases — with the rise of urban deliveries, shared…