San Pedro Street has been mostly closed since 2020, but it’ll take years and cost millions to make that closure permanent.
You’ll find a bustling crowd eating, drinking, watching sports or just moseying about in the middle of San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose most nights of the week, and even on some days. That’s because the block between Santa Clara and St. John streets has been mostly closed to cars since the early days of the pandemic in 2020 through the city’s Al Fresco program.
Customer seating Serious Dumpling and planter boxes occupy the spaces where cars once drove on San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose, which has been mostly closed to traffic between Santa Clara and St. John streets since 2020. Because San Pedro was originally closed as part of pandemic-related emergency measures that expire June 30, any move to close it will have to come under the Pedestrian Mall Act, which requires there to be 90 days between when the city adopts a resolution of intent to create a mall — expected to happen when city staff submits its plan this fall — and the actual hearing.
Fortunately, San Pedro Street can remain closed to cars in the interim through a series of special event permits, with the current configuration to be tweaked closer to the planned proposal. But it’s going to be a while before it’s the pedestrian paradise we all hope it can be.Former Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold retired in 2017, but he seems to have just shifted his reporting skills from daily journalism to true crime.
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