Parking in San Francisco

The Difficult Search for a Spot

San Francisco is known for its environment-conscious planning. Excellent public transportation systems and urban planning have made it such that 33% of San Franciscan homes do not own a car. Unfortunately, for the remaining two-thirds, parking in San Francisco is hard to come by. Parking in the bay area rivals New York City parking and parking in Los Angeles in terms of difficulty. A lack of curbside parking in San Francisco leaves automobile owners unable to commute to work circling neighborhood blocks in their cars for hours. Not only is this a drain on a driver’s patience, but it also makes commuting more harmful to the environment than it needs to be. Hopefully, ParkingSpotter can change that.

Research by UCLA urban planning professor Douglas Shoup and his students recently revealed the extent to which searching for parking contributes to gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions: over the course of 1 year, searching for curb parking in a 15-block business district accounts for approximately 950,000 vehicle miles of travel. This translates into 730 tons of carbon dioxide. For the conscientious commuter, parking in San Francisco without extending their driving time means finding reserved parking. ParkingSpotter was designed to help drivers find local parking lots and parking garages.

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Come Home to Your Own Parking Spot

Using our easy-to-use website, people with available parking spaces to rent or sell advertise each parking spot by posting them to our website. Those seeking parking can then search the site for parking in San Francisco. Simply typing in your address into our search brings up the most relevant parking lot or parking garage in your area. Most spaces are within 1 mile of your address; and if we don’t have any spaces to meet your needs, provide us with your email address, and we will notify you when parking in San Francisco becomes available in your area.

Want to cut down your driving time? ParkingSpotter can help. Browse the site to get prices and availability for parking in San Francisco. Not only will you be helping the environment as much as possible—you’ll also be making your daily commute a little less stressful. You won’t have to worry about parking blocks away from your house. And you can also sleep easy knowing that you aren’t parked downhill from the car of a driver who forgot to use his parking brake!