The sad truth is that the sudden prevalence of parklets shows the true capabilities of a city when the business and merchant community approves of it and that all those years of approvals and insufferable meetings for housing the homeless, transit & street safety is just theater https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/1330628349937541124

And backing from the homeowner, property owner constituency or moreso the lack of opposition

Still cant believe it took a pandemic threatening our economic viability for parklets to be installed en masse. Such common sense policy that got obstructed for years prior because of "parking concerns"

I support parklets and the expansion of the public commons in spaces that have been dominated by cars. Pretty common outside of the United States (pic). But for years it was opposed because the property owning class kept complaining about wanting more parking lots over people.

Now it's being done instantly because otherwise businesses will die. (But in still half-assed ways that actually nullify the health benefits of outdoor eating such as enclosures).

Get me that same urgency for housing, public transportation, utilities, schools please.