It certainly looks as if the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Muni are eager to step on the gas for big increases in fares and fees. But they stubbornly resist easing up on the brakes when it comes to stopping the waste of millions of our public dollars in the following categories:
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Passengers departing out of San Francisco International Airport for foreign locales will soon be paying a little extra to keep their cars at the hub.
Overnight parking rates at SFO’s international garage are set to increase by 20 percent — from $20 to $24 — starting next year. Rates at the international garage have remained steady since 2007, and as a result finding a parking spot in the structure has become increasingly more difficult.
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If we had a “Dim Bulb of the Year” award, we would give it to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. How better to honor someone who so ostentatiously proposes a policy with obvious unintended consequences, then gets angry when they predictably come to pass?
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Credit card fees for taxi drivers, an issue that has led to protests and threats of strikes, might be lessened or eliminated.
On Monday, the Taxi Advisory Council recommended ending a pilot program allowing cab companies to charge drivers a 5 percent credit card transaction fee. In place since October, the program grants companies a waiver from San Francisco’s transportation code protecting drivers from such fees.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom opposes a fee on alcohol proposed by Supervisor John Avalos, a stance that might slightly benefit two companies the entrepreneurial mayor has an interest in.
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Increased fees for nonresidents playing the prized greens of Harding Park Golf Course are not enough to bring operations out of the red, but the PGA Tour could bring relief.
Nonresidents are expected to start paying $15 more to hit the links at Harding Park. Weekday rates will increase from $135 to $150 and weekend rates from $155 to $170, which is about a 10 percent increase.
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A series of parking fee and fine increases will take effect today, including a $20 hike for The City’s residential parking permits.
The residential parking permits, available to San Francisco residents in neighborhoods without strong commercial presences, will increase from $76 to $96, a move that was approved in February by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The $20 increase means that since 2008, the cost has gone up by 60 percent, from $60 to $96.
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Greens fees for residents and nonresidents could be increased by April at Harding Park Golf Course — San Francisco’s most expensive public golf course — under a plan that would net nearly $50,000 for city coffers this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
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Owners of sketchy properties in The City who have been penalized under a new blight ordinance can now attend hearings at City Hall to try to wiggle out of the hefty fees.
The hearings are emblematic of a new crackdown on slumlords who leave their properties unkempt and graffiti-laden in a way that is attracting crime and other seedy problems to San Francisco’s neighborhoods.
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Seventy-one business fees are on the verge of elimination from The City’s books as part of a larger effort to remove the complex process of starting a small business in San Francisco.
There are more than 60,000 small businesses in The City, employing the majority of workers in San Francisco and generating billions of dollars in sales each year.
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