San Francisco Is Observing PARKing Day - Everyday

Last September 18th, folks from SDAF, Holiday Matinee, Sezio, Salon Tonic and others got together to turn a parking spot into a recreational spot on National PARKing Day.  
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Seems that San Franscisco mayor Gavin Newsom has been paying attention to PARKing Day for some time now, too. His planned pedestrian plazas and 'parklets' are sprouting up like new grass in springtime all over the City By The Bay as patches of pavement and parking spaces are converted into miniparks. Read more about it at sf.streetsblog.org., and click here for The Gate's take.The Department of Public Works is setting up and maintaining the parklets, and they're doing it in a sustainable and sensible way, going so far as to scrounge up "unused city property like Dumpsters to serve as large planters for fruit trees and the trunks of dead trees for use as planter borders."
   
Makes us wonder how something similar might work in our fair city. What do you think?wide-angle_1.jpg

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