By Emily Green, KQED News Fix
On Thursday, San Francisco once again takes up the controversial issue of parking meter expansion at a committee hearing. One issue will be Sunday meter enforcement, which took effect in late February. The change has angered many churchgoers, who say it is undermining community bonding and forcing people to pay money to worship.
Floyd Jones is one of those people. He has been coming to the Jones Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood every Sunday for the past 60 years.
Jones is 88 years old, dapper and witty. He used to come here with his wife, Ruby. She died 5½ years ago. Now he comes alone, waving to friends as the service gets under way and singing along to the songs.
“With the way that things are going, the social hour after church that we used to have — people stayed 20, 30 minutes and had little servings in here sometime,” said Floyd, standing outside the church. “But that’s all out.”
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