Mayor Lurie’s long-promised two-hour limit on RV parking on SF streets took effect Saturday, though its effect may be limited, as many of the RVs already have a six-month extension lined up to stay parked right where they are.
San Francisco has always had a fairly significant population of people living in RVs parked in street parking spaces, particularly around Bayview-Hunters Point, the Mission District, and around the Lake Merced and West Portal areas. This past summer, Mayor Lurie vowed to crack down on RVs parked in streets by enforcing a strict two-hour parking limit, though that allegedly strictly limit was just a plan to issue warnings. There would be no legitimate enforcement of the two-hour parking rule until November 1.
Well, as the Chronicle pointed out, November 1 arrived on Saturday, and the two-hour RV parking limit arrived with it. But the two-hour limit still won’t apply to many, if not most RVs parked on SF streets. NBC Bay Area points out that the city handed out hundreds of six-month extensions that would allow those dwellers to leave their RVs put for another full six months…