How to Use parklet in a Sentence

parklet

noun
  • Then there’s the parklet, painted a loud highlighter green, for the al fresco crowd.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The restaurant may be modestly sized, with a cozy parklet, but the flavors stand tall.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2023
  • Bikes lean against an outdoor parklet until the walls are barely visible.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Delirama offers indoor dining and takeout for now, with plans to build a parklet.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Casanova seats 70 inside and 30 outside in a parklet.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
  • Business owners, for their part, are continuing to invest in their parklet spaces.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • His restaurant shares a parklet with neighboring restaurant Khazana.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The agency is moving forward with a plan for side-running bike lanes that would let merchants with parklets decide whether the lanes snake outward around their parklets or toward the curb.
    — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2024
  • Pavel Sirotin, owner at the Georgian restaurant Bevri, is a fan of Palo Alto’s parklet program.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • Some retailers and landlords have been particularly vocal opponents to the parklet program.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • In the interim, though, some of the restaurants in Palo Alto’s downtown had invested heavily in creating their own parklets.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • There was a buzz on upper Fillmore Street Thursday as shoppers browsed bougie boutiques while restaurant patrons spilled into streetside parklets to soak up the sunshine.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Official rules for downtown parklets were approved in September 2023 as the council tried to bring cohesion to the new dining spaces.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • For instance, at Zola and BarZola on Bryant Street on a recent Friday, workers were installing state-of-the-art overhead heaters at the restaurants’ parklet.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The city is now working on a plan to create pre-approved parklet designs on California Avenue, improve bike amenities and implement other changes that would make the outdoor dining areas feel more permanent.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • This plan also included The Green at Prosperity Village, was the very first parklet created by the City of Charlotte in over 40 years.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Additionally, the past few years have not been easy for many brick-and-mortar shops as business has pivoted toward online shopping and rapid-delivery services, and some shopkeepers oppose the incursion of the parklets into their storefronts and street parking.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • But Palo Alto let many businesses keep their parklets, and the fierce public debate over the past half-decade may have helped the city land on a setup that works for most residents, restaurants and retailers – and feels practically idyllic to visitors.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • In fact, every step has been fiercely contested — particularly the parklets, which many Bay Area cities quickly abandoned after they were born out of necessity in a pandemic era of social distancing and outdoor dining.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • On the other end of the block are popular restaurants Pearl 6101 and Pizzetta 211, which have parklets for outdoor dining, and at the block’s center is Alamo Elementary School.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2024
  • For instance, there is ongoing litigation between downtown property owner Elizabeth Wong and the city over the downtown parklet operated by Coupa Cafe on Ramona Street, where a half-block has been similarly closed to cars.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 9 June 2026

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