SF (and beyond): does the 2-hour parking limit refresh every day?
December 30, 2014 6:19 PM Subscribe
Sign says 2-hour parking only from 8 am - 5 pm. We parked at 3:30 pm and plan to leave it overnight. Is our time up at 8 am or do we have until 10 am (and get another 2 hrs tomorrow)?
No other restrictions are stated. I'm assuming laws may or may not be similar in different cities, but you can never be too sure. Please advise!
No other restrictions are stated. I'm assuming laws may or may not be similar in different cities, but you can never be too sure. Please advise!
In my area (not in CA) your time would technically be up at 8, but it's unlikely that the person in charge of giving tickets for the area would remember your car from the night before. I'd say you probably have until 10.
posted by Night_owl at 6:27 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by Night_owl at 6:27 PM on December 30, 2014
I do this in SF and would leave it until 9:59 am.
posted by quince at 6:28 PM on December 30, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by quince at 6:28 PM on December 30, 2014 [5 favorites]
The parking police in SF use some sort of device that scans license plates, IIRC, so it's not a matter of someone remembering your car or not.
That said, it never occurred to me that my time would be up at 8am in that kind of situation, and I have never gotten a ticket for that, though I haven't parked in 2-hr zones overnight very much.
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:30 PM on December 30, 2014
That said, it never occurred to me that my time would be up at 8am in that kind of situation, and I have never gotten a ticket for that, though I haven't parked in 2-hr zones overnight very much.
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:30 PM on December 30, 2014
As long as there are no other overnight restrictions, you are fine.
The 2 hour time limit starts at 8 am.
No limit parking time starts at 5:00 pm and ends at 7:59 am.
Then the next 2 hour time limit starts up again.
posted by calgirl at 6:44 PM on December 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
The 2 hour time limit starts at 8 am.
No limit parking time starts at 5:00 pm and ends at 7:59 am.
Then the next 2 hour time limit starts up again.
posted by calgirl at 6:44 PM on December 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
In Los Angeles I've been ticketed for not moving my car when the hours start over in the morning.
posted by erst at 6:48 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by erst at 6:48 PM on December 30, 2014
Wouldn't accusing you of parking more than 2 hours combined during the 8am - 5pm period also involves proving that you didn't move the car away and back any time during the overnight period?
posted by applesurf at 7:04 PM on December 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by applesurf at 7:04 PM on December 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
Wouldn't accusing you of parking more than 2 hours combined during the 8am - 5pm period also involves proving that you didn't move the car away and back any time during the overnight period?
That same problem exists for uninterrupted 2-hour windows too. They can't prove you didn't go away and come back between when they scanned your plates. But it doesn't matter, because they made a rule that says "any vehicle moved a distance of not more than one block during the limited Parking period shall be deemed to have remained stationary".
I can't find anything in the San Francisco transportation code that specifically addresses the main question though. I think anything where they pause your parking clock overnight (and possibly over a weekend or holidays) would be complicated enough that it'd be easier to find it in there. It'd also be complicated enough that they'd probably want to avoid it when making the law, which it looks like they did. So without any language saying otherwise, I'd assume that at 5pm the parking restrictions end completely, and at 8 the next morning they are re-instated anew. Meaning, yeah you can parking from 3:01pm - 9:59am. (except watch out for street cleaning)
posted by aubilenon at 8:22 PM on December 30, 2014
That same problem exists for uninterrupted 2-hour windows too. They can't prove you didn't go away and come back between when they scanned your plates. But it doesn't matter, because they made a rule that says "any vehicle moved a distance of not more than one block during the limited Parking period shall be deemed to have remained stationary".
I can't find anything in the San Francisco transportation code that specifically addresses the main question though. I think anything where they pause your parking clock overnight (and possibly over a weekend or holidays) would be complicated enough that it'd be easier to find it in there. It'd also be complicated enough that they'd probably want to avoid it when making the law, which it looks like they did. So without any language saying otherwise, I'd assume that at 5pm the parking restrictions end completely, and at 8 the next morning they are re-instated anew. Meaning, yeah you can parking from 3:01pm - 9:59am. (except watch out for street cleaning)
posted by aubilenon at 8:22 PM on December 30, 2014
I've done this all over SF many times and have never been ticketed.
posted by ananci at 8:53 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by ananci at 8:53 PM on December 30, 2014
Lifelong Bay Arean here. While I have no idea what the actual law is, from experience and from the experience of everybody I've ever chatted with about driving/cars/parking tickets, you won't get ticketed if you move the car before 10:00 am. (And this is the kind of thing that people would gripe about, I think.)
posted by Lexica at 8:58 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by Lexica at 8:58 PM on December 30, 2014
You may need to move from the actual block at 10am, as moving your car to another spot may or may not be enough - though I didn't look that up. And, I think you mean the Upper Haight, since it's next to Cole Valley, and if so, there's plenty of side streets without two hour parking limits.
posted by kcm at 9:02 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by kcm at 9:02 PM on December 30, 2014
Response by poster: Hi everyone. Thanks for helping us make the decisions to stay until 10am! Maybe the fact that it's the holidays, but we were okay. Appreciate the input!
posted by doctordrey at 10:21 AM on December 31, 2014
posted by doctordrey at 10:21 AM on December 31, 2014
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