The Recreation and Parks Department has begun selling reservations to an app that books soccer fields and charges people for pickup games.
Subscribe to our daily newsletterIn a move that privatizes San Francisco’s public reservation system for soccer fields, the Recreation and Parks Department has begun selling reservations to an app that turns a profit by booking fields and charging people to join pickup games.
Charging a $13.99 fee in San Francisco, the app is both more expensive and less accessible than the public reservation. In comparison, if two San Francisco residents have their residency discount approved and then book both halves of a field with lights, it would cost $98 an hour, or $7 a person if there are 14 players.
to Monkey Parking in 2014 and stated it would do the same to Sweetch, calling the practice illegal and citing a police code that prohibits companies from buying public on-street parking.The interface of the Just Play app displaying the Garfield Square soccer field. The interface of the Just Play app, displaying several locations.
The Recreation and Parks Department told Mission Local that “there aren’t any current plans to expand Just Play, and any expansion would be limited to areas with excess capacity.” Saucedo said he calls the Recreation and Parks Department to book the fields around one to three months in advance, paying its for-profit field rate of $92, plus around $14 to $28 for lighting. Just Play promotes the games in a WhatsApp group and online through sites such as Meetup, encouraging people to download the app and join.That’s less than the app typically charges in cities such as Chicago and Detroit, Saucedo said.
In contrast, the city’s own reservation website uses Google Translate, which offers translations in many languages.
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