The Bay Area has twice as many parking spots as people—and there’s a hidden toll - The San Francisco Examiner

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While our region might be slightly less asphalt-saturated than others, the data still demonstrates that “the Bay Area has too much parking.”

Vehicles parked along Rhode Island Street on Potrero Hill on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The Bay Area has more than 15 million parking spaces, with more than two-thirds of those spaces in residential areas or in residential buildings, according to a new census of the region’s parking supply.

“There’s a disconnect between our progressive social and environmental values and how much land we actually devote to driving and storing cars,” said Laura Tolkoff, transportation policy director at SPUR and one of the authors of the parking census. “It should come as no surprise that two thirds of Bay Area residents drive alone to work and for almost all of their daily needs.”

San Francisco has a total of 634,000 parking spaces, evenly split between on- and off-street spaces. Some parts of the city had very high “parking density.” In a few downtown census tracts, with large parking garages and structures, the square footage of parking spaces was actually larger than the land area of the entire census tract.that found The City’s greater downtown area has 87,000 non-residential, off-street parking spacesmostly in garages.

 

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So let's turn all parking spaces into tent camps and make SF more green. SMH.

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