Rendering of cafe seating in place of parking. Image - RG Architects, via Streetsblog.
Matthew Roth at Streetsblog reports on plans to convert parking spaces to cafe seating along Divisadero in San Francisco.
Following up on city experiments with converting street space to plazas, and annual Park(ing) Day, where groups around the world convert parking spaces to mini parks for a day, the city is set to convert two parking spaces in front of a cafe in a matter of weeks, once ongoing road work along Divisadero is completed. Similar to the earlier plazas, the conversion is temporary and does not affect the underlying street infrastructure. This makes it more affordable and allows the space to be converted back to parking if the experiment goes awry for any reason.
See Matthew Roth’s article for more details on the project.
Streetsblog San Francisco » San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions.
Columbus Avenue in North Beach may be soon to follow: Cafes get more sidewalk under North Beach plan – San Francisco Chronicle.
Update: Follow-up article in the San Francisco Chronicle. S.F. plazas, ‘parklets’ spout, squeeze out cars.
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