![]() ![]() If you find yourself stopped in this restricted zone, here's a simple rule to test if you are breaking the law. Not only are you not allowed to park here, you also are not allowed to pick up someone very quickly at the curb, make a phone call, check the SFpark app, or stop your vehicle's forward motion for any reason. No Stopping is actually even stricter than No Parking. Last year, there were 18,179 No Parking citations issued. So can you stop there at all? Yes, you may stop there to quickly drop off or pick up passengers, but you may not wait there for passengers to arrive. No Parking means that you may not stop your car by putting it in park or in some fashion having the vehicle locked in a stationary position. So, let's start off with the basics, or what up to this point we thought of as basic - no parking. But, I think I have my head wrapped around it enough to be able to give you an answer. Most DPT officers and SF police that I have asked this question have given me an answer that reminded me of the time when Senator Jesse Helms was trying to define pornography, "I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it." And I also have experienced them getting frustrated when I tried to clarify the difference between "no stopping" and "no parking". Thanks, J.P.ĭear JP, While I consider myself a simple man who just happens to know a lot about parking, answering your question will require me to get into a guru-like transcendental head space, as though I were trying to answer a 7th century Zen kōan. So, I am turning to you, the parking guru to find out just what "no stopping" and "no parking" mean. He didn't couldn't explain it well, but said that I definitely was guilty. ![]() He became frustrated with me quite quickly as though I had asked him a ridiculous question. I tried to nicely ask the officer what "no stopping" meant. So we've enlisted local parking guru and author of Finding the Sweet Spot, David LaBua, to dish out weekly tips on navigating the ins and outs of city parking.ĭear Parking Guru, I just got a ticket for "no stopping". It's no secret that parking in the city is a bitch. ![]()
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