City may ban bus visits to ‘Full House’ landmark
Reviews for the reboot of the TV show “Full House” were tepid when the sequel debuted in 2016. But that didn’t stop a surge of tourist interest in the titular “Fuller House,” which has made life unpleasant for its real-life San Francisco neighbors.
Now the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency is weighing a ban on tour buses on the often-congested stretch of Broderick Street in Lower Pacific Heights where the famous Victorian sits.
The change to the city’s transportation code would ban “commercial vehicles with nine or more seats” from Broderick Street between Pine and Bush streets. It will be considered at a meeting of the MTA’s Board of Directors at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Illegal parking of tour buses on the block is a consistent problem, according to the MTA. The
agency tried posting “No double parking” signs on the street and asking parking officers to crack down on the problem, but tour buses continue to clog the block “due to limited enforcement resources during weekends and holidays when visitor traffic is highest,” an agency staff report said.
The home at 1709 Broderick showed up mostly in the credits for “Full House” when it aired from 1987 to 1995. It was purchased by the creator of “Fuller House” in late 2016, several months after it went on the market for $4.15 million.
It’s joined such tourist destinations as the twisty stretch of Lombard Street and the Painted Ladies at Alamo Square in prompting complaints from residents about hordes of out-of-towners and scores of car breakins.
For their part, tourists don’t seem to be too jazzed about the experience of visiting the Full House, either.
“We were there maybe 2 minutes max and a neighbor was yelling at us on a megaphone from across the street to leave and other obscene words!” wrote one disgruntled visitor on TripAdvisor.
“The parking along the road is not good,” wrote another.
At least in that respect, it’s an authentic San Francisco experience.