The SF MTA has been working on a plan for a couple of years that would lease currently public parking spaces to car share businesses, including at least one owned by AVIS, which purchased ZIP Car for $500 million last year. City Car Share, the non-profit pioneer of car sharing, is also on board with the plan. 

The issue is very divisive. HANC encourages our members to do the research and figure out where you stand. Hoodline is covering the story (http://hoodline.com/2014/07/parking-for-private-car-shares-backlash-in-the-haight) and the feedback indicates the level of division (making it an age thing, or a NIMBY thing). While the ultimate goal of the plan is worthy, the giving up of public space to corporations that can afford to rent space in off street garages or parking lots is questionable.  Remember, this is the same agency that wanted to reroute the 6 Parnassus to Haight Street and eliminated two MUNI stops on Haight Street.