So the city's going to take a look at the neighborhood parking program [1]. Good. Here's my first question: Why do the car owners get away so cheap?
It costs $64 a month to buy a Muni Fast Pass. It costs at least $300 a month to rent a garage. But if you're in the neighborhood parking program, you get essentially a guaranteed parking space on a city street -- public property -- for $104 a YEAR, or about 28 cents a day.
That's crazy.
I'm not for eliminating the neighborhood parking stickers; the program keeps out-of-town commuters from driving into SF and using residential areas as free parking lots. But let's make the car owners -- who, by the way, are still reaping the Schwarzenegger VLF windfall -- pay their fair share.
Double the fee and you get another $6.5 million. And the parking permits would still be the bargain of the decade.
And then maybe we can get God out of the parking system [2].
Links:
[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/08/san-francisco-eager-simplify-parking-program-s-current-jumble-zones
[2] http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/04/18/where-would-jesus-park