https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/11/23/san-jose-spent-big-bucks-on-covid-parklets-but-some-businesses-cant-afford-to-make-them-permanent/

It’s a Thursday morning in San Jose’s SOFA neighborhood, and restaurant pop-up owner Brandon Salmon has served one of his very last Covid-era breakfast sandwiches.

The pop-up space is located in a parklet on South Second Street that was installed during the pandemic. But with San Jose — like most cities around the Bay Area — phasing out free parklet space for businesses, this one will soon be a relic of a time when masks and social distancing were part of our regular lexicon.