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Company officials say they were enticed by the broadband connection and the opportunity to grow in The Gate, and the company began renting three offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we expand, we’ll actually add additional lines in this space,” says Type A founder Andrew Rutter as he stands on the company’s production floor. “And so the idea is that we’ll be able to expand and fill this and really turn it into a really high-volume production space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all goes well, Type A could more than double its workforce in San Leandro, to around 60. And they’ll be looking for more space. “It’s really hard to find a space where you can expand that rapidly and by such a big margin,” says Rutter. “Because most places, they just don’t have the additional space lying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro has that space. At one time, there were more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs here. In 2013, only about 6,800 of those jobs remained. 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She’s probably the only city employee with bright red streaks running through in her hair, and she says that touch puts people on notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see my red hair, they’re going, ‘Holy smokes, something’s different here. I think I need to pay attention,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that San Leandro’s economic development plan has included language about becoming a tech hub since the late ’90s. But that dream “sat there as words on the page until Lit San Leandro came along. Suddenly they realized, ‘Wait a minute, we don’t have to talk about this anymore. We’re actually there, we’re actually part of it. I mean, we have to do something with it now. But we can’t complain that we don’t have the infrastructure,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that infrastructure, San Leandro hopes, can bring back jobs and reorient the city’s economy. 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The blog \u003ca href=\"http://liveworkoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Work Oakland\u003c/a> has created a map showing where all these new tech companies are popping up in the city. The city’s emerging tech industry is trying to cultivate a new brand — one that’s more diverse and has a better relationship with the community. Entrepreneurs, investors and activists are hoping to avoid the “pricing out” of locals and cultural displacement happening in parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most of the new start-up founders in Oakland, Daniel Rodriguez and his business partner aren’t originally from the city. They came to the Bay Area from Colombia, and they expected to end up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.’\u003ccite>Mitchell Kapor,\u003cbr>\nVenture capitalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When we thought about the U.S., we thought about San Francisco, like the mecca of the Silicon Valley,” he says. “But when we got there, the price of the rent was so high. Even sharing a room was high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead, the pair moved into West Oakland, a place they had heard about from others in the tech world. Now, they run their start-up out of Impact Hub Oakland. It’s a new shared co-working and event space at Grand and Broadway that’s buzzing with people trying to create the next big thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Kapor, a venture capitalist also based in Oakland, thinks some of them will succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a> is just down the street from Impact Hub, says tech can have a different culture here than it does in San Francisco. He thinks it can be more diverse, socially aware and connected to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not want to be a Pollyanna. I think change is always a challenging process,” Kapor says, then adds: “We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”5tqal8nysLGHFvvZWZptXWpSCNlQZUcE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrepreneurs and investors like Kapor are trying to grow local talent. The Hidden Genius Project and \u003ca href=\"http://www.blackgirlscode.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Girls Code\u003c/a> are initiatives in Oakland that help African American youth get involved in tech. Google just gave $500,000 to a charity that teaches low-income kids coding and business skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizer Olis Simmons says it’s nice if a few local kids get to learn coding, but that’s not nearly enough if Oakland wants to head off the kind of displacement happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tokenism,” she says. “It’s marketing. It’s public relations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons heads \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Uprising\u003c/a>, a neighborhood center in East Oakland, far from downtown. Unemployment there hovers around 20 percent, and the school next door doesn’t have reliable high-speed internet. In order for real change to happen, she says, Oakland needs money for social programs and improving public schools—real investments that would help stabilize her neighborhood. She points out that Google and other big tech companies send billions of dollars in profits overseas to avoid taxes that fund services and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, if you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new,” Simmons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says if that happens in Oakland, there will be conflict, and it will be more severe than the clash over tech in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to say this. It breaks my heart to say this,” Simmons says. “San Francisco had a very long ramp of displacement and gentrification, that by the time things exploded, the vast majority of the poor people and the people of color were long gone. That’s not true in Oakland. It will happen much more rapidly and it will be a much grittier experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new.’\u003ccite>Ollis Simmons,\u003cbr>\nYouth Uprisings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Economist Carol Zabin thinks that distributing the wealth generated by tech could ease the tensions. Zabin is the research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. One of the quickest ways to do that, she says, would be raising minimum wage. Higher pay would ensure that when the cost of living increases, regular folks could afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about getting into the tech jobs.” Zabin says. “It’s also about improving the jobs that tech creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabin’s colleague Enrico Moretti calculates that each tech job eventually creates five additional jobs outside of the innovation sector. The wealth that tech generates leads to the employment of more people in areas like food service and construction. That’s why Zabin says other tech hubs should follow Seattle’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle is increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour. San Francisco has a similar measure on this November’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are the economic costs of that?” Zabin asks. “It means those wealthy tech workers have to pay more for their restaurant meals and their retail expenditures, and their services, and not very much more — 1 or 2 or 3 percentage points more when we get a wage jump of 50 or 60 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start-up scene is relatively new in Oakland, but the city is already grappling with wage inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Oakland will ask voters to decide whether to increase minimum wage to $12.25 an hour, and in West Oakland, there are protests against two new redevelopment zones that community members fear will speed up gentrification. As more start-ups move in, locals are wondering what roll tech companies will play in these issues.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Panchenks/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: Post updated Saturday, June 28. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-monkeyparking-cease-and-desist/\" target=\"_blank\">it's not a complete surprise\u003c/a> that MonkeyParking, the smartphone app that appears to facilitate buying and selling of public parking spaces, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/06/26/monkeyparking-tells-sf-its-not-going-to-kill-its-parking-app/\" target=\"_blank\">is now telling the city of San Francisco\u003c/a>, \"Whoa — that's not what we're doing at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’s like a prostitute saying she’s not selling sex — she’s only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you.'\u003ccite>— Matt Dorsey,\u003cbr>\nCity attorney's spokesman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dennis Herrera told the Rome-based firm the other day that the app violates an ordinance that forbids renting, leasing or selling street or sidewalk space. Herrera gave the company until July 11 to shut down. MonkeyParking has responded with \u003ca href=\"http://monkeyparkingapp.strikingly.com/\">an online declaration\u003c/a> that it's not about to cease operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"MonkeyParking is an innovative social sharing app that lets registered users communicate with each other when a parking spot becomes available,\" the statement says. \"Users have the opportunity to be paid for the information communicated based on whether or not the communication successfully identifies a parking spot that is available. MP is not in the business of selling or auctioning parking spots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MonkeyParking statement also decries the way the city is trampling on fundamental freedoms:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The shared economy trades on information, not on goods or services or other commodities. We are very surprised that the City of San Francisco, which prides itself of being a liberal and tolerating city, does not see that their cease and desist letter is an open violation of free speech, contrary to the First Amendment of the US Constitution (“I have the right to tell people if I am about to leave a parking spot and they have the right to pay me for such information”).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Herrera spokesman Matt Dorsey told \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/06/26/monkeyparking-tells-sf-its-not-going-to-kill-its-parking-app/\" target=\"_blank\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that's \"wildly inventive verbal gymnastics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be honest,\" Dorsey told the Chron. \"It’s like a prostitute saying she’s not selling sex — she’s only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you. It’s semantic hair-splitting, and it’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MonkeyParking's statement also appears to fly in the face of the way it has pitched its service, both on its website and in its app. Just a couple of days ago, a sample app screen on the MonkeyParking site included this dialogue: \"John will pay $10 for your current parking spot. Are you in?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sure sounds like a parking spot, not just the information about it, is up for sale. We note that the sample screen displayed on MonkeyParking's site has changed in the last 48 hours. It now says, \"Maggie will pay $10 to find a parking spot. Can you help her?\" (And yes, that sounds like Maggie is willing to pay \u003ca href=\"http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=7323\" target=\"_blank\">a sawbuck\u003c/a> just to have someone tell her where she can find parking.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140491\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/monkeyparking5.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/monkeyparking5-360x640.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the MonkeyParking app, informing users they can make $150 a month by selling on-street parking spots. \" width=\"315\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the MonkeyParking app, informing users they can make $150 a month by selling on-street parking spots.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The MonkeyParking app, as downloaded from the iTunes App Store Friday afternoon, seems more explicit about what you're buying and selling. A setup screen says, \"Make up to $150/month by selling your on-street parking spots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another screen in the app describes the MonkeyParking process:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whenever you park your car, publish your parking spot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get notified about drivers willing to pay for it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leave your spot to a driver and get paid for the effort.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Similarly, MonkeyParking's sample screens in the App Store say the program allows you to \"broadcast your price for a parking spot,\" \"request a parking spot\" and \"let the highest bidder park at your place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though we don't claim to be doctors of jurisprudence or Nobel economics laureates, MonkeyParking's pitch doesn't seem real subtle: While the app furnishes information about parking, what users are paying for, and getting paid for, is concrete real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> Saturday morning (June 28), we got an email from MonkeyParking CEO Paolo Dobrowolny, based in Rome, responding to our questions about the wording on the MonkeyParking site and app. He says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regarding your statements on our initial pitch, I can confirm we recently worked on the wording on our website (and on our app) to clarify what is our business model. 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The guys in question have developed an app called \u003ca href=\"http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MonkeyParking\u003c/a> that, in essence, allows drivers who have been lucky enough to find a parking space on the car-choked streets of San Francisco to sell that spot to other drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s letter said you can’t do that — a city ordinance forbids it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco Police Code Section 63(b) specifically prohibits the buying and selling of public street parking spaces. The San Francisco Police Code provides: “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to enter into a lease, rental agreement or contract of any kind, written or oral, with or without compensation, for the use of any street or sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city attorney added that another provision of the code could make parking app users liable to fines of up to $300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paolo Dobrowolny, one of the Rome-based MonkeyParking guys and the firm’s CEO,\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/06/23/city-attorney-throws-monkey-wrench-parking-space-auction-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told the San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c/a> in response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As a general principle we believe that a new company providing value to people should be regulated and not banned,” Dobrowolny wrote in an email. “Regulation is fundamental in driving innovation, while banning is just stopping it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s letter warned Dobrowolny that unless MonkeyParking shuts down by July 11, it will face legal action. The city attorney also served notice that two firms that have produced similar parking apps, Sweetch and ParkModo, will also be served with cease-and-desist demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”a1a943f6ea820e35bb2990e9bf1302d7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll see what happens next, but it seems like we’ve seen this movie before: Some new company, announcing it’s the advance guard of “the sharing economy,” appears in town with a great idea. It introduces a brilliant app-based service that will disrupt a musty, old, inefficient marketplace to the benefit of humankind in general. Sure, there might be a small fee involved, and our beneficent entrepreneurs might rake off a percentage for themselves, but it will be worth the cost for the rest of us. Our lives will be so much better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then someone comes along to spoil the party — some agent of the regulatory state wielding a book of antiquated laws and rules and a stack of cease-and-desist orders. The share-for-pay services say, “We’ll think about it.” Then they get to work lobbying the public, lawmakers and regulators to make them see how wrong the existing rules are, how punitive they are to the spirit of innovation and individual empowerment the companies say they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is pretty much the story for Airbnb, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/window-into-airbnb-s-hidden-impact-on-s-f-30110.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transformed the short-term rental market in San Francisco\u003c/a> and elsewhere. It has grown into a worldwide business \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/19/uber-and-airbnbs-incredible-growth-in-4-charts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said to be valued at $10 billion\u003c/a> even though its rentals are illegal in many cities. That includes San Francisco, which \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">bans renting residential spaces for fewer than 30 days. \u003c/span>Airbnb, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Activists-seek-to-get-anti-Airbnb-measure-on-5571321.php#/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be the target\u003c/a> of a San Francisco ballot measure seeking to rein it in, has tried to salve municipal feelings here and elsewhere by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/18/304564169/airbnb-to-start-charging-hotel-taxes-in-a-handful-of-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreeing to collect hotel taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulatory saga of ride-service companies, such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, follows much the same arc. When the California Public Utilities Commission told the companies in 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/03851232-DD84-47C1-B134-D90C8D15D3B7/0/CeaseandDesistLetters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they were breaking the law\u003c/a> by carrying passengers without the required state permits, the companies simply shrugged and told the CPUC, “You just don’t get what we do.” Although the firms were hit with fines of $20,000 each for flouting the law, eventually the CPUC adopted a set of rules that has allowed them to operate pretty much as they please. Uber is valued at $17 billion, though \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/06/17/2014/Uber-Lyft-Insurance-crack-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in California\u003c/a> (and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/06/19/2014/uber-lyft-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elsewhere\u003c/a>) it and the other ride companies remain under scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers over a variety of issues, including whether they provide sufficient insurance coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, will MonkeyParking and its cousins survive? Will they convince regulators that they’ve figured out a way of making the on-street parking market more rational and efficient?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s one big difference between Airbnb and the Ubers of the world and MonkeyParking and its ilk: When it comes to facilitating a temporary apartment rental or a ride in someone’s car, those pay-to-share services are dealing with access to private property. Yes, state and local governments long ago decided the public has an interest in regulating how that property is used in some circumstances. But still, when you rent your place on Airbnb or put a pink mustache on your car to take strangers from Point A to Point B, you’re using \u003cem>your\u003c/em> house and \u003cem>your\u003c/em> car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the new parking apps are attempting to traffic in public property — something paid for, built and maintained by public taxes and fees. It’s my property, and yours too, and everyone, in theory, enjoys equal access. Honestly, it seems more than a little presumptuous to think you can grant a select group of drivers the privilege to buy and sell the public’s street parking. Not all drivers have a smartphone that would enable them to access such a service, and not all have the same ability to pay under such a scheme — depending on the app, drivers would pay between $5 and $20 on each space or bid for it in an auction. One other detail: It’s against state law and recklessly unsafe to be fiddling with smartphone apps while operating a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, parking’s a mess in San Francisco. People in our oh-so-highly-innovative, environmentally conscious region really like driving and are willing to put up with 17 kinds of hell to keep doing it, including circling the block time after time to find that elusive free parking space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you listen to ParkModo founder Daniel Shifrin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201406250930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a guest on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Wednesday\u003c/a>, his service is all about reducing the negative environmental, safety and economic impacts of that endless circling. He said city officials “categorically don’t understand what this business is” and reminded the audience, “I’m the gentleman who founded Zipcar in San Francisco. I’m personally responsible for removing more cars from the streets of San Francisco and more carbon emissions and congestion than anybody in this city ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said ParkModo, which doesn’t appear to have a working website as of Wednesday afternoon, “is not trying to privatize public parking spots at all.” Instead, he said, the company is simply facilitating an exchange of information, for a fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you know when I am leaving a spot, and you’re privy to that information, then you can easily go to that location and avoid the parking search,” Shifrin said. The fee users pay is simply an incentive for drivers to participate in a solution to an inefficient parking market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Goldman, a Santa Clara University law professor and co-director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute, said in an interview with KQED’s Mina Kim that MonkeyParking and similar apps are “a logical extension of the sharing economy. … In the end, I think the underlying problem is too few parking spots, too many cars in San Francisco. I do think we’re going to see constant innovation in that area, where people are going to try to find fixes to the problem because the supply-and-demand imbalance is just overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a more down-to-earth take on where “sharing” parking spaces for pay might lead, a \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> listener named Christine had this thought. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/MonkeyParking.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-140202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/MonkeyParking.jpg\" alt=\"MonkeyParking\" width=\"296\" height=\"297\">\u003c/a>Earlier this week, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sent a letter to a group of young guys working mostly, it seems, in Rome. The guys in question have developed an app called \u003ca href=\"http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MonkeyParking\u003c/a> that, in essence, allows drivers who have been lucky enough to find a parking space on the car-choked streets of San Francisco to sell that spot to other drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s letter said you can’t do that — a city ordinance forbids it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco Police Code Section 63(b) specifically prohibits the buying and selling of public street parking spaces. The San Francisco Police Code provides: “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to enter into a lease, rental agreement or contract of any kind, written or oral, with or without compensation, for the use of any street or sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city attorney added that another provision of the code could make parking app users liable to fines of up to $300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paolo Dobrowolny, one of the Rome-based MonkeyParking guys and the firm’s CEO,\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/06/23/city-attorney-throws-monkey-wrench-parking-space-auction-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told the San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c/a> in response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As a general principle we believe that a new company providing value to people should be regulated and not banned,” Dobrowolny wrote in an email. “Regulation is fundamental in driving innovation, while banning is just stopping it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s letter warned Dobrowolny that unless MonkeyParking shuts down by July 11, it will face legal action. The city attorney also served notice that two firms that have produced similar parking apps, Sweetch and ParkModo, will also be served with cease-and-desist demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The share-for-pay services say, “We’ll think about it.” Then they get to work lobbying the public, lawmakers and regulators to make them see how wrong the existing rules are, how punitive they are to the spirit of innovation and individual empowerment the companies say they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is pretty much the story for Airbnb, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/window-into-airbnb-s-hidden-impact-on-s-f-30110.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transformed the short-term rental market in San Francisco\u003c/a> and elsewhere. It has grown into a worldwide business \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/19/uber-and-airbnbs-incredible-growth-in-4-charts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said to be valued at $10 billion\u003c/a> even though its rentals are illegal in many cities. That includes San Francisco, which \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">bans renting residential spaces for fewer than 30 days. \u003c/span>Airbnb, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Activists-seek-to-get-anti-Airbnb-measure-on-5571321.php#/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be the target\u003c/a> of a San Francisco ballot measure seeking to rein it in, has tried to salve municipal feelings here and elsewhere by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/18/304564169/airbnb-to-start-charging-hotel-taxes-in-a-handful-of-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreeing to collect hotel taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulatory saga of ride-service companies, such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, follows much the same arc. When the California Public Utilities Commission told the companies in 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/03851232-DD84-47C1-B134-D90C8D15D3B7/0/CeaseandDesistLetters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they were breaking the law\u003c/a> by carrying passengers without the required state permits, the companies simply shrugged and told the CPUC, “You just don’t get what we do.” Although the firms were hit with fines of $20,000 each for flouting the law, eventually the CPUC adopted a set of rules that has allowed them to operate pretty much as they please. Uber is valued at $17 billion, though \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/06/17/2014/Uber-Lyft-Insurance-crack-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in California\u003c/a> (and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/06/19/2014/uber-lyft-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elsewhere\u003c/a>) it and the other ride companies remain under scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers over a variety of issues, including whether they provide sufficient insurance coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, will MonkeyParking and its cousins survive? Will they convince regulators that they’ve figured out a way of making the on-street parking market more rational and efficient?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s one big difference between Airbnb and the Ubers of the world and MonkeyParking and its ilk: When it comes to facilitating a temporary apartment rental or a ride in someone’s car, those pay-to-share services are dealing with access to private property. Yes, state and local governments long ago decided the public has an interest in regulating how that property is used in some circumstances. But still, when you rent your place on Airbnb or put a pink mustache on your car to take strangers from Point A to Point B, you’re using \u003cem>your\u003c/em> house and \u003cem>your\u003c/em> car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the new parking apps are attempting to traffic in public property — something paid for, built and maintained by public taxes and fees. It’s my property, and yours too, and everyone, in theory, enjoys equal access. Honestly, it seems more than a little presumptuous to think you can grant a select group of drivers the privilege to buy and sell the public’s street parking. Not all drivers have a smartphone that would enable them to access such a service, and not all have the same ability to pay under such a scheme — depending on the app, drivers would pay between $5 and $20 on each space or bid for it in an auction. One other detail: It’s against state law and recklessly unsafe to be fiddling with smartphone apps while operating a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, parking’s a mess in San Francisco. People in our oh-so-highly-innovative, environmentally conscious region really like driving and are willing to put up with 17 kinds of hell to keep doing it, including circling the block time after time to find that elusive free parking space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you listen to ParkModo founder Daniel Shifrin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201406250930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a guest on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Wednesday\u003c/a>, his service is all about reducing the negative environmental, safety and economic impacts of that endless circling. He said city officials “categorically don’t understand what this business is” and reminded the audience, “I’m the gentleman who founded Zipcar in San Francisco. 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Its tail struck a seawall and was ripped off. The rest of the plane went spinning and sliding down the runway. The crash was the only fatal passenger airline accident in the U.S. in the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote, Chris Hart, the NTSB's acting chairman, said that increasingly complex automated aircraft controls designed to improve safety are instead creating new opportunities for error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asiana flight crew \"over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other issues raised by the investigation are some that long have concerned aviation officials, including hesitancy by some pilots to abort a landing when things go awry or to challenge a captain's actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of the accident is that it occurred at all. Three experienced pilots were in the cockpit on July 6, 2013. The plane, a Boeing 777, had one of the industry's best safety records. And weather conditions that day were near-perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the wide-bodied jetliner with 307 people on board was too low and too slow during the landing. It struck a seawall just short of the runway, ripping off the tail and sending the rest of the plane spinning and skidding down the runway. When the shattered plane came to rest, a fire erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The irony of the accident is that it occurred at all, as three experienced pilots were in the cockpit. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Despite the violence of the crash, only three people were killed — Chinese teens seated in the back who may not have been wearing their seat belts and were thrown from the plane. One of the teenage girls survived the crash but was run over by two rescue vehicles in the chaos afterward. 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The company offers law enforcement free access to its license-plate data through another database, the National Vehicle Location Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigilant sells license-plate readers to over a dozen California agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the Sacramento Police and County Sheriff’s departments. For its business with law enforcement in the city of Alameda, Anaheim, Marin County, San Rafael and Sacramento, Vigilant won the contracts without going through a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Vigilant PowerPoint presentation about its products, obtained by CIR, contains a section on the “near future” for the company. That includes a fusion of public records, license-plate data and facial recognition, according to the slide. Another technology, dubbed MOAB, would help law enforcement find vehicles using a “probabilistic assessment” of a vehicle’s location based on historical data and public records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another slide prepared for Texas law enforcement shows how a combined data program could work. It would pull mug shots from the local Department of Motor Vehicles database and notify law enforcement with an alert if “a vehicle is associated with someone with a known criminal history.” The slide also describes “facial images embedded into” the license-plate record. 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