Drivers in San Francisco may soon face extended hours at parking meters across the city. While one shop owner fears driving customers away, transportation officials argue it will do the opposite.
Parking meters line the street outside of Macchiarini Creative Design in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where longtime resident, Daniel Macchiarini, makes his living.
"Any time where you create a situation where people have to pay more in order to visit a commercial district, you inhibit the use of the commercial district," Macchiarini said."This is a form of tax on using our commercial district.""The commercial districts in particular, I think, will suffer," he said."We think this will be good for business.
"It's extremely important that we generate revenue in any way we can. The SFMTA is facing a $130 million annual budget deficit starting in fiscal year 2025, which is July 1 of 2024," Willson said."$18.5 million is the gross revenue from both the evening and the Sunday meter extension, is what we're estimating. That combines both meter revenue and revenue that we would generate through additional citations.
"We've called it the fiscal cliff, and I don't really think that's an exaggeration," Willson said."We're looking for other sources of revenue, we're asking the state for sources of revenue, but one of the things that we've heard back from state legislators is, we need to see what you're doing on the local level to generate more revenue and make things more sustainable financially for MUNI. So, this is one of the things that we can do.
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