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Fire Marshal flags firefighter access concerns as San Francisco weighs making outdoor dining and slow streets permanent
Summary
The fire marshal told commissioners that SFMTA received roughly 2,000 shared-spaces applications and the fire bureau inspected about 1,100 sites; commissioners raised concerns that slow-street closures (including Page Street) may be increasing response times and the department announced a joint study with SFMTA to analyze GPS/response data.
Fire Marshal Marshall Coughlin told the Fire Commission on Jan. 12 that the department has been tracking and inspecting shared outdoor dining and slow-streets installations that grew during the COVID pandemic and that safety guidance has been added to MTA permitting.
"SFMTA has received approximately a little over 2,000 I think it's 20 28 shared spaces applications," Coughlin said, and the Bureau of Fire Prevention had visited about 1,100 of those locations on a biweekly basis. He said roughly 750 restaurants were actively operating curbside installations at the time of his presentation. The bureau described required design…
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