Over a dozen people gathered in a driveway in the city’s Bayview neighborhood on Saturday to participate in the Bayview Conefest, a mysterious event that caught the attention of visitors and residents in the neighborhood.
Conefest was conceived by friends Jordan Zagerman and Daniel Clayton. Clayton, along with his wife Saba Nafees, hosted the event outside of their house on Shattuck Avenue, where other residents have a reputation for lining the street with cones to block off parking spots in front of their homes.
“It creates a friction in something that’s already difficult because these cars are too big,” Clayton said. “If there’s one message I really want to get [across] from this satirical event, it’s that we’ve really got to be conscious of the public commons.”
Orange cones of different sizes bordered the grassroots event, which took a couple people away from San Francisco’s Portola Festival nearby. Curious attendees were greeted with little toy traffic cones, orange and red sno...
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