What better place to buy and sell parking spaces than Los Angeles? After its hasty exit from San Francisco, it is perhaps only natural than MonkeyParking would appear in Los Angeles.
The company that was so roughly removed from San Francisco, where the city attorney declared that buying and selling parking spaces was not something that could be done, is now trying to get a fresh start in Santa Monica, according to LA Weekly.
Though this may be tougher than trying to get to the 101 from the 10 on a Friday afternoon.
MonkeyParking is trying to set up in Santa Monica, but is already running afoul of city leaders like the parking administrator, who is saying that allowing parkers to auction off a space in the public right of way is not only illegal, but "immoral," the newspaper reported.
Spots are sold from anywhere from $5 to $7, the newspaper reported, of which MonkeyParking takes 20 percent.
Can what failed in SF fly in LA? So far, it's not seeming likely.
