Presentation on SFMTA's Residential Permit Parking's costs & benefits

Proposed area

• $110 per permit per vehicle per year.
• Some people think $110/year or $0.30/day guarantees you a parking spot. This is FALSE
• $110 doesn't buy you a parking spot. It only buys you a permit to parking near your house, which you can to today, free, without bureaucracy.
• Given an average of 2 cars per household ($220) + 20 day permits ($200), that's $420/year
• Guest parking permits require mail-in or in-person purchase at the SFMTA at 11 South Van Ness. Consider the additional time and hassles involved.
• Visitor permits are $8-12 per ONE DAY permit.  Imagine if you have a last minute guest arriving, with the mail-in or queuing at the MTA office requirement...
• The full pricing schedule for guest parking: 
• 2 weeks @ $37, 4 weeks@ $55, 6 weeks @ $73, 8 weeks @ $94
• Max of 20 guest parking permits/year
• Consider if you have babysitters, repairmen
• RPP rules typically only apply during business hours, M-F. The non-resident cars you’re trying to eliminate will not be thwarted outside of these hours (evenings, weekends), meaning this carries MINIMAL benefits to residents during evenings & weekends, when parking is most needed
• Based on historical cost increases, expect $160/permit soon
• A detriment to our community employees
• Employees of 30th street senior center, St. Luke's Hospital, Fairmount school, parents going to Noe Valley Rec. Center, for the most part won't have access to permits; will be forced to worry about parking, instead of tending to the elderly, the neighborhood children.

B O T T O M   L I N E:

• Guaranteed expenditures to you
• Don't be deluded. $110 buys you a permit, not a parking space. 
• Each infraction incurs a $76 ticket - http://goo.gl/WOvM2C
• Guaranteed additional paperwork or queueing at the MTA office to obtain permits
• If you lack proof of residency (renters, students, etc), the volume of overhead rapidly increases
• Zero guarantee this will improve the parking situation in any appreciable manner
• Introducing RPP into the neighborhood is introducing more bureaucracy into your life.
• The absolute cost in parking amelioration outweighs benefits
• Painful for our community workers

Don’t want to pay $440/year* to park in your neighborhood?

Then DO NOT sign any petitions until you get the facts about Residential Permit Parking!

Get INFORMED about SFMTA’s Residential Permit Parking (RPP) program at a special community meeting on Wednesday, Feb 4th.

If you live in Fairmount or Glen Park, get informed and decide for yourself, before others decide for you. You have a lot at stake.

Separate fact from fiction about the proposal, with representatives from the SFMTA, and SF Rec & Park.

Location:

Upper Noe

Rec Center

295 Day St.

@ Sanchez St.

Time:

Wed, Feb 4th

7pm

Submit your questions before the community meeting using this form.