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About the new meters

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is expanding the number of metered parking spaces to increase parking availability in key commercial districts in San Francisco.

History

A public hearing recommending the addition of 1,550 metered spaces was held in June 2010. After community input, the total number of newly metered spaces was reduced to 1,340, which the SFMTA Board of Directors approved at its meetings on September 7 and October 19.

Attributes of new parking meters

The state of the art new parking meters will:

Be installed in areas where parking is either unregulated or with time limits of one or two hours
Have longer time limits (either four hours or no limit) to increase driver convenience
Accept credit/debit cards as well as SFMTA parking cards and coins
Be single space (on a pole) or multi-space (one pay station per 8-10 vehicles)

How to use the new meters

Meter rates

Just over half of the newly metered spaces are within SFpark pilot areas. SFpark is a federally funded pilot program to test new parking technologies and policies with the aim of reducing the amount of time drivers spend circling for parking. In those pilot areas, the newly metered parking spaces will be priced based on demand with rates generally between $0.25 and $6 per hour depending on demand. Demand will be measured by either in-pavement sensors or a calibration from in-pavement sensors nearby. Prices will change depending on demand but no more often than every four weeks and by no more than $0.50 per hour.

The rates for the remainder of the newly metered spaces are governed by the SFMTA’s Meter Rate Area 3, $2 per hour. These metered spaces will also have extended time limits.

Locations

Newly metered spaces are located on the following streets and blocks:

Map of newly metered spaces (GIF)

Map of newly metered spaces (PDF)

Accessible list of newly metered spaces

Street	Address	From	To	Side of street
Clarence	00	Townsend	North 140 feet	west
Ritch	100	Brannan	Townsend	west
Bluxome	00-100	4th St	6th St	both
King	300	4th St	5th St	south
Townsend	300-500	4th St	7th St	both
Perry	100	3rd St	4th St	north
Harrison	800	4th St	5th St	both
Kaplan	00	Clementina	end	both
Lapu-Lapu	00	Rizal	Harrison	both
Brannan #1	500	4th St	5th St	north
Brannan #2	700	6th St	7th St	both
5th St	400-600	Harrison	Townsend	both
South Park #1	00	2nd St	Park Circle	both
South Park #2	100	3rd St	Park Circle	both
Powell	2300	North Point	Beach	east
North Point #1	100-200	Grant	Powell	north
North Point #2	600	Jones	Columbus	South
Jones	2600-2800	Bay	Jefferson	both
Turk	600	Franklin	Gough	both
Fell	300	Gough	Laguna	both
Brady	00-100	Market	Otis	west
Franklin	1000	O’Farrell	Geary	both
Eddy	900	Franklin	Gough	both
Gough #1	800-900	Golden Gate	Eddy	both
Gough #2	1000-1200	Eddy	Geary	east
Gough #3	1300	Geary	Post	both
Gough #4	1400	Post	Sutter	east
Peter Yorke	00	Post	Geary	both
Geary	1200	Franklin	Gough	both
Hyde	400-600	Post	Ellis	both
Leavenworth	400-500	Geary	Ellis	both
Sutter	800	Jones	Leavenworth	both
Ash	300	Gough	end	south
Stevenson	1200	Gough	Brady	south
Ellis	400-500	Jones	Hyde	both
Hoff	00	16th St	17th St	west
Mission	1700	13th St	14th St	west
Capp	100	16th St	17th St	both
Valencia St	1400-1500	25th St	Cesar Chavez	both
So. Van Ness	1500	26th St	Cesar Chavez	both

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