Residential Parking Permit- Yeeha!
I’m so excited. I just managed to send in my application for the residential parking permit for my neighborhood. I know this isn’t really news, but it’s a formidable moment in my life, especially as a SF resident. I have a garage, but now when people visit I can park on the street and they can use it! No more watching the clock for the 2-hour limit to expire, or planning our day around moving the car at specific times. The best thing is that I procrastinated for a year, so my vehicle registration was renewed during that time and my address on the reg. actually matches with my real address! So I don’t have to wait in the hour-long line down in south of market offices of Dept. of Parking and Transit. Few years ago when I got my virgin Mission sticker, I had to wait in line, and irony of ironies, I got a ticket on my car AND a citation for smog. Sigh. More random notes after jump.
I love saying “after the jump.” Anyways, on the website they said that:
Prompted to investigate by citizen complaints, DPT found that there are more than 700 households in the City that maintain between four and, in the most egregious case, twenty-seven residential permits.
Now, something is wrong with the system if you have to fill out all these forms and prove you’re a resident and still there’s crazy-ass fraud going on.
I’m part of a new district– red, A– and it stops in the land of good parking: Bay street. Link to cool map of districts. Friend of mine lives on Guerrero & Cumberland and she is in the uncharted realms of no residential permits. That must really suck, especially in the Mission. More: I heard someone paid someone to wait in that line for them, at the D of P and T. That is so third world!
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Don’t even get me started… What’s most B.S. and thoroughly flawed about SF’s parking permit regime = If your exact street address happens to be on a block that is not permit-restricted, yes what? You are not eligible to apply for a permit sticker. Even if *every other block* in your neighborhood is permit-restricted, you are hosed. #$@%! Yes, this means circling and circling for the holy grail of a parking space in the random blocks or sidestreets that just so happen to not be restricted. In your own neighborhood. Ridiculous!
They can’t believe that, miraculously, the spots directly outside your front door will always be wide-open for you. And thus you don’t need one. It’s complete bull$#% Sorry.
Hey, how long does it take to get the permit back in the mail? I’m trying to decide whether to send it in or go stand in line.
2 weeks? but the line isn’t bad- I had to eventually go in because they got me a permit for the wrong neighborhood.