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