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from the the rich get away with murder AND parking dept. San Francisco citizens are in an uproar over street parking. There are not enough parking spaces on the street to accomodate all the vehicles in San Francisco. So when it was revealed recently that romance novelist Danielle Steel owns 26 parking permits, the citizens took their gripes to City Hall. According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the parking permits exempt the holders from the posted parking restrictions that make parking on the street virtually impossible in many crowded neighborhoods. In response to Steel's surplus, city officials will consider limiting the number of parking permits to three per household. San Francisco has the nation's largest per-square-mile number of registered vehicles and one of the smallest numbers of per-capita parking spaces. About 500,000 vehicles compete each weekday for 320,000 street parking spaces. Amusingly to me, police issue 100,000 parking tickets annually specifically for sidewalk parking. Parking is a major revenue source for San Francisco, currently $12.6 million a year. Speaking about a recent city meeting, supervisor Gavin Newsom is quoted as saying, "No one wanted to talk about homelessness or affordable housing. What they wanted to talk about parking permits." What surprises me is that the people of San Francisco haven't resorted more to public transportation. The BART system is in place, along with trolleys and taxis. I think parking permits are not so much the issue here as too many cars in 49 square miles. < Seniors deserve recognition | Coyote Attacks on the Rise >
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