Why Lake Merced RV dwellers aren’t going anywhere anytime soon

By Natalia Gurevich : sfexaminer – excerpt

The new parking restrictions aimed to clear the parade of RV dwellers parked along Lake Merced’s Winston Drive are not going into effect next week as originally planned, city officials confirmed Wednesday.

The decision not to enforce new four-hour parking restrictions came after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency decided they “were not ready,” Jennifer Fieber, a legislative aide for Supervisor Myrna Melgar’s office, told The Examiner.

The restrictions were scheduled to start next Dec. 19, with SFMTA poised to tow RVs if they were parked in one area for more than four hours, much to the frustration of the people living in the RVs around the lake…

“We are desperately looking for a safe parking site,” said Fieber. “But there’s nothing even close on the horizon.”… (more)