NO CAVALRY ARRIVED Monday to save the remaining residents of the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center in San Francisco from closure of the “safe parking” site.

The site was a place where people living in their vehicles could park and receive services without fear of tickets or impoundment. In December 2024, the city gave notice to the residents that the site was closing and they needed to exit by Monday or their vehicles would be impounded.

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.