{"id":981,"date":"2020-12-06T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=981"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T20:32:28","slug":"sf-life-shared-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/12\/06\/sf-life-shared-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Life: Shared Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SF launched an outdoor dining\/business program called Shared Spaces<\/a> to offer some relatively<\/em> safe outdoor dining activities, and to support safer pick up for delivery services from food service companies. While I want the sidewalks to be kept clear for pedestrian use full time, especially for the unimpeded use of the disabled community, the approach of using car parking space for public enjoyment <\/strong><\/span>is a better, higher value, higher density use of public street space than storing privately owned cars, and so I zealously support it.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n

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You can see the Shared Spaces interactive map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I say that this offers a relatively safe outdoor dining<\/em>, I mean that it is very relative based on how the space is configured. I’ve walked past some of these arrangements, and they vary widely. I won’t sit with unmasked strangers from other households while they eat within a high-walled area with a tent or overlapping umbrella roof.<\/span><\/em> I wouldn’t sit that close to them surrounded by an enclosure if they were smoking,<\/strong> so there’s no way I would sit near them when they MAY have a highly contagious and potentially fatal virus! Those configurations aren’t “outdoor” enough<\/strong> for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Outdoor” dining has become less and less outdoors as we move into our “winter” in North America, and that’s the safety issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n