This is such a shame, the restaurant parklets that I visited in SF were quite nice, it'll be a shame to see them go just because of poorly thought out policies that were supposed to make them permanent. Fact check all you want, I still refuse to believe Billie Eilish was born this century.
"This is such a shame, the restaurant parklets that I visited in SF were quite nice, it'll be a shame to see them go just because of poorly thought out policies that were supposed to make them permanent."
I think the truth is somewhere in between. Some of the restaurants I've visited have parklets of highly questionable build quality, along with a number of electrical safety violations.
Moreover, I would not trust any of them to do much more than completely collapse in the event of even a low-speed collision by a vehicle. A few out here didn't even withstand the storms that came through, collapsing due to high winds. I would like to see them made permanent as well, but with a few additional safety measures including embedded posts streetside.
That said, a more gradual and guided shift to better-built and safer parklets would have been the constructive option.
"This is such a shame, the restaurant parklets that I visited in SF were quite nice, it'll be a shame to see them go just because of poorly thought out policies that were supposed to make them permanent."
I think the truth is somewhere in between. Some of the restaurants I've visited have parklets of highly questionable build quality, along with a number of electrical safety violations.
Moreover, I would not trust any of them to do much more than completely collapse in the event of even a low-speed collision by a vehicle. A few out here didn't even withstand the storms that came through, collapsing due to high winds. I would like to see them made permanent as well, but with a few additional safety measures including embedded posts streetside.
That said, a more gradual and guided shift to better-built and safer parklets would have been the constructive option.