SEC. 8A.113. PARKING AND TRAFFIC; GOVERNANCE.
§ 8A.113
The Agency must manage the City's parking and traffic to prioritize public transit, pedestrians, bicycles, and safety while maintaining financial support for the Municipal Railway. The City will not build new or expanded parking facilities unless their operation will not reduce transit funding below 1999-2000 levels (adjusted for inflation) and any new garage must advance the Transit First Policy.
The City's parking and traffic agency must run streets in a way that puts buses and other transit first, especially during rush hours, while keeping everyone safe. It should also make streets better for walking, biking, and group transit. The City won't build new parking garages unless doing so doesn't take away money from the bus system and the garage actually supports the goal of putting transit first in the City.
- Complex:Subsection (b) contains multiple nested conditions (acquisition restrictions, funding floors, inflation adjustments, and Transit First Policy consistency) that interact in ways requiring careful cross-reference to Section 16.110 and other policy frameworks.
- Controversial:The priorities stated—particularly the 'Transit First' principle and restrictions on parking expansion—reflect contentious debates in San Francisco about transportation hierarchy and development.
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Official text
(a) The Agency shall be responsible for management of parking and traffic functions within the City, so as to:
1. Provide priority to transit services in the utilization of streets, particularly during commute hours while maintaining the safety of passengers, pedestrians, cyclists and motorists;
2. Facilitate the design and operation of City streets to enhance alternative forms of transit, such as pedestrian, bicycle, and pooled or group transit (including taxis);
3. Propose and implement street and traffic changes that gives the highest priority to public safety and to impacts on public transit, pedestrians, commercial delivery vehicles, and bicycles;
4. Integrate modern information and traffic-calming techniques to promote safer streets and promote usage of public transit;
5. Develop a safe, interconnected bicycle circulation network; and
6. Ensure that parking policies and facilities contribute to the long term financial health of the Agency.
(b) It shall be City policy that the Agency manage the Parking Authority so that it does not acquire or construct new or expanded parking facilities unless the Agency finds that the costs resulting from such acquisition, construction, or expansion and the operation of such facilities will not reduce the level of funding to the Municipal Railway from parking and garage revenues under Section 16.110 to an amount less than that provided for fiscal year 1999-2000, as adjusted by the Controller for inflation; further provided that it shall be City policy that before approving the acquisition, construction or expansion of a parking garage, the Agency's Board of Directors shall make a finding that the operation of the garage will advance or be consistent with the City's Transit First Policy.
(Added November 1999; Amended by Proposition A, Approved 11/6/2007)