We touched on the parklet initiative that helped many restaurants get thru the tough Covid times. Parklets are popular and with the arrival of Spring they should see continued high use. Today is the day restaurants have to start paying for a "cleaning fee" as we noted here in January. $250 per month. No April Fooling, today is the day. So I checked with the city and so far eight establishments have decided to discontinue their parklets.
Back in December we noted staff said "Burlingame is currently home to 43 parklets occupying 88 parking spaces" so eight discontinued is about 20%. That's not bad--about 80% keeping them even with the new fee. Now let's hope the fees get put to the use they are intended to provide. The restaurants are motivated to clean up inside the parklet. It may even be a health code thing if the code was updated, but walking around town one sees a different story on the outside of the parklets. Street sweepers cannot get into the nooks and crannies between parklets, curbs and cars so this will have to be a manual job. Here is one example.
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