While the bike lane project will eliminate less than 1% of City College’s parking supply, it comes at a time when the school’s entire parking infrastructure is in upheaval.
City College has plans in place to get rid of nearly 1,800 parking spaces, about 60% of its cache. The city transferred ownership of one of the school’s main parking lots to a developer group, which plans to build about 1,100 housing units at the Balboa Reservoir site next year. There is an academic building being built in the other primary parking lot for the school, and a new theater building is also planned to go up in that parking lot. To deal with the loss, the school is preparing to put out a request for proposals to build a parking structure on campus.
“It’s not just about parking or bike lanes,” said Emma Heiken, legislative assistant for Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supports the project. “This is a bigger vision for our city, it’s about generations of San Franciscans riding their bikes together.”
