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Is there no ordinance requiring appropriate parking levels for businesses like this? In my Midwestern city, a pick-up-only restaurant has to have 1 parking spac
by mminer237 3y ago
Is there no ordinance requiring appropriate parking levels for businesses like this? In my Midwestern city, a pick-up-only restaurant has to have 1 parking space for every 400 square feet in addition to bike spaces.
It looks like Cloud Kitchens has ~20 parking spaces for 20,000+ sqft of kitchen? And half of those appear to be for employees with no spaces for bikes/scooters. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charter+Oak+Food+Pick-Up+-+San+Francisco+CloudKitchens/@37.7370193,-122.4054271,119m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x808f7f3fd87d4f9f:0xb527090bb3dd8375!8m2!3d37.7368403!4d-122.4053576!16s%2Fg%2F11ryswds85?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charter+Oak+Food+Pick-Up+-...
This sounds like a total planning failure. That's a huge facility that never should have been allowed to open there without the proper infrastructure in place. They need like 2 or 3 times that many spaces, and there's not really a good way to create them after the fact. I think food delivery in general is pretty wasteful, but making fewer spaces doesn't make fewer cars/bikes required. If you want a huge ghost kitchen, you have to be prepared to handle a huge amount of traffic.
- acchow 3y agoThere are far too many cars driving around SF carrying no passengers and just a pound or two of food. I think it makes sense for drivers to switch to mopeds, and the parking situation everywhere will naturally fix itself.
- hot_gril 3y agoEnforcing the existing laws would fix this. These delivery cars always stop in the middle of traffic or bike lanes because there simply isn't enough space in SF.
- gruez 3y agoIronically what the parent poster implied is the solution (parking minimums?) only makes the problem worse, by making businesses/neighborhoods even more spread out to accommodate parking lots, which entrench cars even more.
- hot_gril 3y agoWorse or better, depending on the city. SF is too dense to add more parking.