San Francisco this week opened the parking lot of a former McDonald’s, located at Haight and Stanyan Street, for holiday shoppers to park free of charge.
According to Derek Remski, a legislative aide to Vallie Brown, the Supervisor of District 5, opening the lot for temporary holiday parking is an ‘interim-interim’ use of the site. The city eventually plans to change the lot to a paid facility. When officials consider measures like this, they can use poster printing to create Signs to inform drivers of parking availability.
San Francisco is making the lot free for the time being to make it easier to get to small businesses in the neighborhood, who lost sales earlier this year because of construction work on transportation and pedestrian improvement projects in the area. Although the construction stopped for the year on Thanksgiving, traffic diversions and road closures on Haight Street impacted retailers strongly.
Long-term plans for the site call for the construction of affordable housing, but construction won’t begin immediately, and could be as far as five years in the future.
Some of the uses being considered between the present and the start of housing construction include an Off The Grid presence with a park for food trucks, a market, and community space. Off The Grid has already filed an application to use the site.
The lot will be open from 9:00 am until 10:00 pm every day through Christmas Day.
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