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Street Parking in SF: Fees for Car-Share, Free for Car Owners
With hundreds of on-street parking spaces around San Francisco set to become available for car-share vehicles, the SFMTA plans to charge companies monthly fees for the conversion of curbside spots that are normally free. So while companies like City Car-Share, Zipcar, and Getaround — which offer services that make it easier for residents to go without owning personal vehicles — will pay up to $225 per month for reserved spots, private car owners will generally continue to pay nothing for the use of unmetered spaces.
An on-street car-share parking spot in SoMa. Image: Google Maps
While it makes perfect sense to charge car-share companies a fee for on-street spaces, the new policy highlights the absurdity of giving away the same precious real estate for the storage of privately-owned automobiles.
"If you're going to charge the car-share people $200 a month or so, how come you're giving parking places away for $100 a year?" Howard Strassner, chair of the local Sierra Club chapter's transportation committee, told the SFMTA Board of Directors at its most recent meeting. "I mean, this is craziness."
The "$100 a year" Strassner was referring to (more accurately, $106 per year) is the cost of a residential parking permit in SF. The fee is limited by state law to cover no more than the administrative cost of running the program, and RPPs are given out in unlimited numbers, so they essentially serve as a hunting license in neighborhoods with high demand for parking. So even in neighborhoods where RPPs are required, drivers circle around for spots and add to traffic on the streets.
While the vast majority of on-street parking spaces in San Francisco are free, the going rate for parking is reflected in rents for private parking spaces, which typically cost hundreds of dollars per month.
As we've seen, at least one enterprising van owner has taken advantage of the city's real estate giveaway to set up a subsidized hotel.
The car-share fees are scaled to provide an incentive for companies to distribute spaces equitably in the outer neighborhoods, and not just the denser neighborhoods in the city's core where car-share markets are already well-established, according to Andy Thornley, project manager for the SFMTA. Spaces in the inner zone will cost $225 per month, the middle zone $150, and the outer zone $50.
The SFMTA Board approved the curbside car-share program last month, and the first new spots are expected to open up in January.
Fee zones for car-share spaces. Image: SFMTA (##http://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/7-16-13%20Item%2013%20Car%20share%20presentation.pdf##PDF##)
Filed Under: Car Sharing, Parking, Parking Permits, SFMTA
Fair enough, although technically I've never met you. Just traded the odd barb here 😉
My intended point was more that, for many working families, the need for a car is an inelastic demand. So when you raise the price they cannot usually sell their car, but rather they just become poorer.
Or drive an older more dangerous car, which benefits nobody.
I'd agree, coolbaby, except that many people who live in SF work outside it. So while those who live outside SF but work in it can use transit, as transit is organized to funnel commuters into downtown SF, that doesn't help those who work in another county, or where their children attend a school miles away.
One family I know live in SF, the parents have jobs in Marin and San Mateo County, and the children attend a private school across town. They don't need a car. They need two.
Many people live in San Francisco, work in Silicon Valley and take Caltrain or bicycle to and from the stations. I see them everyday. For those with reasonable access to Bart or Caltrain, it beats driving for an hour +. That doesn't help anyone headed to Marin or who lives far from reasonable public transportation (Muni doesn't fall in that category in my opinion).
I know parents who have their kids going to school all over town. The parents always seem exhausted, and the children miss out on the freedom we had long ago in being able to walk or bicycle to school. In Barcelona, they have special public transportation specifically for school children. Better transportation options are needed so that driving becomes more of an option and less of a necessity.
mikesonn
No, SFSD needs to not require kids to travel all over the city which I believe they are finally doing away with.
That's the best example you can give Neil? Do they also need a car to get to their country club? I thought we were talking about how increased car costs hurt poor people, even though you've ignored low car ownership among low income San Franciscans this entire conversation.
Last time I checked dual income families with jobs worth commuting to and sending kids to private school wasn't considered low income. My friends who went to private school in SF took muni, or maybe your friends' kids go to a private pre-school for children with overbearing parents? Just kidding, but you've provided a good example for the overuse of "need" or inelastic demand when it comes to car ownership. Of course people are free to own as many cars as they can afford, but they are also free to make life changes that mean they don't have to spend so much of their money on cars and lives in traffic.
Mike, these particular kids attend private school, as do mine.
My understanding was that the SFUSD still has a form of bussing (in the sense of that word that doesn't imply that buses are provided – only that some type of enforced diversity is imposed on the schools meaning that some kids have to travel far from home).
Some changes were made to get rid of the worse excesses of the previous quota system, but parents still to not always their local or first choice school, and that involves extra load on the roads whichever way you look at it.
coolbaby, my point was that an increase in car costs would not cause this particular family to lose a car because they need two. I never said it was my "best" example but it is a real life one.
I suppose you're going to say that they could completely change their lifestyle and then they'd only need maybe one car. But then isn't that the transit tail wagging the lifestyle dog?
I never said they should give up their cars. But at the same time i'm not buying it that they need them either. I would need a car too if I chose to drive across the US tomorrow, but only because I chose to drive across the US.
Your friends might find that their lives are better if they made a few changes that enabled them to live healthier and richer lives, but that's their choice.
Cool, it ain't worth it.
gneiss
Neil, We live on a 7 x 7 mile peninsula. Even accounting for a full 'across town' commute, the difference in time between cycling between those destinations and driving is minimal, particularly when you factor in that cars typically only average 15 mph on their trip times between locations.
Making safe routes to school from different neighborhoods is a priority of the bicycle coalition and represents one of the primary reasons why we should be building a safe, complete bicycle network. Then many children could get themselves to school rather than having to rely on their parents or MUNI.
I too send my child to private school. However, my wife and I use a trailer bike on the back of our bikes to get her to school and home from the Upper Haight to the Mission. It takes us *less* time to drop her off and pick her up by bike then either car or MUNI and has the added bonus of saving us money on parking MUNI fares, etc.
If more people felt comfortable riding bikes (and letting their kids ride bikes) in the city, we'd easily reduce traffic congestion by a significant amount during the school year. Just think of how much easier it would be to drive around town without all those parents transporting their kids by car everywhere.
gneiss, if SF were a 7 by 7 city with nothing else around it, I'd agree with you. But that's looking at things from a very SF-centric perspective.
I think in terms of the Bay Area, which is more like 70 by 70, and bikes are a much more marginal mode of transport when you look at it that way. The Bay area is really one big city with 5 million people, 500 square miles, nine counties and dozens of cities. But it's all one big conurbation in the end.
If you can organize your life so you never leave SF, or maybe never leave your zip code, then that's great and those options are plausible. But many of us traverse several counties, if not daily, then certainly weekly or a few times a month. The city line doesn't mean much to people like me.
Then we need a more dense Bay Area which makes the car even less practical.
so good, there are no inter-county transit options either! I either drive or take my helicopter.
"My understanding was" only that some type of enforced diversity is imposed on the schools meaning that some kids have to travel far from home
Another topic you are pontificating on either without much knowledge or intentionally throwing in some classist (in this case racist) undertone.
Neil – while I agree that the city is part of an integrated network with other communities in the Bay Area, many of the city streets that people navigate to get to schools are traveled primarily by locals. In addition ask yourself what is more important – making streets more 'convenient' for people who are commuting in or out of town or making them safer for our kids? To me it's a no brainer. Let's make the city safe for kids first. It it means adding an additional 15 minutes of time for commuters, then so be it. In my mind safety trumps convenience any day.
murph, although my children are outside the public system, I know enough parents of kids who are in the system to do that there is an allocation process which gives priority, among other things, to ensuring that the schools in Noe Valley aren't all white and asian, and the schools in the Mission aren't all black and hispanic.
I also know enough parents whose children have to travel a few miles to school when there is a school a short walk from their home.
There are other factors as well, and the system is better than it used to be. But many parents either leave SF or go private because of the school allocation system. It's a problem and not just because it creates many un-necessary commutes.
to ensuring that the schools in Noe Valley aren't all white and asian,
and the schools in the Mission aren't all black and hispanic
peternatural
Great, so families that "need" to drive as their primary transport can do that. For others who prefer healthier and cheaper options, the city should provide excellent public transit, plus a well-connected network of lo-motor and no-motor streets and paths, 8-to-80 friendly, where people don't have toxic second-hand exhaust fumes thrust upon them.
What I don't get: why punish families by forcing more expensive, toxic, and dangerous options on them? You'll just lose hearts and minds.
Where's your citation for claiming that factors like race and socio-economic background are ignored?
If they were ignored, there would be little point in having an allocation system at all. Every kid would simply go to their closest school. That doesn't happen.
There is ideology and political correctness on the allocation system. But that's not a relevant debate to have here anyway, except of course that it means many SF children cannot walk to school.
"But that's not a relevant debate to have here anyway, except of course that it means many SF children cannot walk to school."
Which is exactly why it is a relevant debate to have here. *smh*
If the closest school is full, you might have to go to one further away.
This statement…
Is not the same as this statement.
"some type of enforced diversity is imposed on the schools meaning that some kids have to travel far from home"
There is no "enforced diversity". School choice in the form of children from areas with lower performing schools having the opportunity to attend higher performing schools is not "enforced diversity" nor a quota system. In a school system where some schools are dramatically underperforming, some schools will be higher on the preference list for enough parents that some children who live near a school will not be allocated to that school. This sucks, but that's a problem with the whole school system having problems, not "enforced diversity" (nice dog whistle, Rush Limbaugh).
Either you have no clue or you are completely trolling. "every kid would simply go to the closest school" – a goal you are probably lauding but you probably don't have a problem with some kid living next to Sacred Heart choosing to go to Saint Ignatius – that is of course "choice". You also probably don't have a problem with parents from Noe Valley trying to get into West Portal or Clarendon instead of Alvarado – some of the longest commutes caused by the system happen when wealthy kids from the Marina get into Lowell and eschew Galileo.
But "lower performing" is code for black and hispanic. The lower performing schools are typically in minority areas.
You know and I know that's the case. it's just dressed up in code to avoid looking overtly racist.
What would be amusing, if it weren't so sad, is that this pitches two liberal groups against each other. The educational ideologs who want school bussing against the "livability" folks who want to see less stress on transit and the roads.
Yes, Peter, and the main reason your local school might be full is because kids from other neighborhoods want to go there and the city doesn't give them a lower priority.
I know, Mike, I meant the whole diversity/quota allocation system isn't a valid topic here EXCEPT insofar as it causes un-necessary journies.
But "lower performing" is code for black and hispanic. The lower performing schools are typically in minority areas. You know and I know that's the case. it's just dressed up in code to avoid looking overtly racist.
Good to know you aren't so politically correct and are willing to be overtly racist.
No, Murph, it was the former race quota system that was overtly racist. The new method which instead takes account of "under-performing" schools (which of course correlate highly with non-white areas) appears to be much less overtly racist. While of course ensuring similar outcomes.
I am neither politically correct nor racist, and that's a fairly small group in America IMO. Most folks are either one or the other.
My partner and I sold our cars shortly after moving into the city because they were more hassle than they were worth.
Kids near the school now get priority. The problem is that the distribution of schools, and their capacities, does not exactly match the distribution of kids looking to enroll. Figure it out logically. If there was a perfect match, it would be a miracle. BTW, my two kids are in public school, and neither has far to go. One walks, the other has a short MUNI ride.
Who says 'cars pay for this city's streets?' Source?
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Handmade cathedral replica that rotates while playing a popular Russian melody. Coated with several layers of crystal clear lacquer. Would make a terrific gift to anyone interested in Russia and Moscow in particular. Size: 9 inches (23 cm). Imported from Moscow. Ships within 5 business days.


We know, we know: the last thing you care about is another food holiday. But this week isn't just any old excuse to eat a donut or drink a margarita (or three) at happy hour; August 7th through 13th is National Farmers Market Week. Not like we needed a reason to celebrate our tireless farmers, bakers, fishers, and food purveyors across the country, but we're all about giving credit where credit is due—especially to the peple who keep our kitchens well-stocked with the best seasonal and local ingredients around.
Sure, you might have your favorite market, but have you ever wondered what it would be like to shop local on the other side of the world? In honor of our farmers and the markets they call home, we pulled together a list of our favorite global farmers marchés and mercados. Warning: They might make you hungry for an impulse trip.
The largest market in NYC attracts 60,000 visitors each day with a mixture of local shoppers, chefs, and tourists, all vying for a taste of fresh produce and locally made goods.
The biggest wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Asia spans 46 acres of India's capital city.
Bangkok's largest fresh market is almost like its own small city tucked away deep inside of Thailand's capital.
Located in Helsinki's South Harbor, this outdoor market boasts fresh produce, mushrooms, fish, even smoked reindeer (sorry, Rudolph), along with hot street food and local handcrafts.
This historic indoor market in Barcelona dates all the way back to the 1200s and showcases some of the best Catalan produce.
Colombia's capital city market is bursting with the colors of local fruit, flowers, seafood, and more.
This thriving yet remote market is hidden behind the Karakorum and Pamir mountains, but it was once the central trading point of the Silk Route and dates back to Roman times.
This certified farmers market is teeming with local produce that draws 25,000 locals, visitors, and chefs each week.
When in Paris, don't miss out on this bustling market filled with luscious produce, cheeses, mushrooms, and food products. Snack on fresh fruit under the nearby Bastille Monument or feast on your wares at the Place des Vosges park around the corner.
This fish and vegetable market in Venice serves its population and the millions of tourists it attracts each year. Hint: Try the sought-after baby artichokes.
London's oldest food market dates back 1,000 years but is still very much a thriving hub of farmers, fishermen, bakers, food producers, and shoppers.


Two bedrooms with living room/kitchen, 1 bath.
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Bob Christopher
The freedoms we enjoy in America speak of a greater and more enduring freedom — one whose symbols are a wooden cross and an empty tomb.
Last week I visited Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. This fort is best known for the role it played in the war of 1812. The soldiers who occupied this fort successfully defended the Baltimore Harbor from attack by the British Navy.
Francis Scott Key was aboard a British ship anchored in the Baltimore Harbor to negotiate the release of prisoners. While on board, he learned of the British Navy's plan to attack Fort McHenry. He was not allowed to leave the ship until the battle ended. As he penned, he watched "the rockets' red glare and the bombs bursting in air" throughout the night.
The dawn of September 14, 1814, Key saw the American flag, 30′ by 42′ in size, waving over Fort McHenry. The sight of "old glory" inspired him to write the famous words of The Star-Spangled Banner.
This powerful poem captured the essence of the indomitable American spirit. Some 100 years later, by decree of Pres. Woodrow Wilson, it was adopted as our national anthem. Once adopted, the Star-Spangled Banner was inextricably linked to the American flag as symbols of our freedom.
We cherish these symbols and the American way of life they represent. The very act of singing the national anthem as we fix our eyes on a flag waving in the distance invokes a sense of patriotism and thankfulness in each of us.
We are privileged as American citizens to have freedom of religion, free speech and the right to pursue happiness, just to name a few. These are the qualities of freedom that these wonderful symbols point us to. They also issue a warning that these freedoms could be taken away or lost. We should never take them for granted.
What we have in America speaks of a greater and more enduring freedom, one whose symbols are a wooden cross and an empty tomb. These symbols point us to the newness of life we have in Jesus Christ, a life marked by freedom from sin and death, freedom from legalism and freedom from the fear of death. These are freedoms that Christ purchased for us and they can never be taken away.
When you think of the cross and empty tomb, what aspects of your new life in Christ are you most thankful for? For me, it's the truth that I've crossed over from death to life. What about you?
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The freedoms we enjoy in America speak of a greater and more enduring freedom — one whose symbols are a wooden cross and an empty tomb. By Bob Christopher via iDisciple
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Open and dog-friendly home with forest views and two patios!
This private, cozy Cannon Beach vacation rental makes a perfect getaway for a couple or small family (and the dogs!). With two patios, a full kitchen, and wood-burning fireplace, you can enjoy all the comforts of home along with the added romance of the beautiful Oregon Coast.
This one-bedroom vacation rental is smartly designed to make the most of its space. You'll enter directly into the open living and dining area, and instantly feel at ease thanks to the warm wood tones, contemporary furnishings, and charming bistro-style artwork. There's a plush red sofa waiting for you to settle in and soak up the tree-lined views outside.
The living area opens onto the galley-style kitchen, which has updated stainless steel appliances, ample storage, and even a dishwasher for easy clean-up. You'll also find all the cooking gear, dishes, and serving utensils you might need to prepare meals or even just settle in with a pizza or takeout after a long day exploring the beach. Just outside the front door, you'll also find a charcoal barbecue, so you can enjoy some freshly grilled steaks or burgers on a warm summer evening.
There's a four-person dining table in this space as well, along with a 42-inch flat-screen TV with cable and DVD player. There's also complimentary wireless Internet provided. If you feel like leaving electronics out of the equation, grab a board game and spread out at the table for some unplugged action.
At the end of the night, the spacious bedroom beckons you with its comfortable queen bed, wood-burning fireplace, and an additional flatscreen TV so you won't miss your favorite late-night talk show. The bedroom also has a lovely seating area near the window, perfect for relaxing in the sunshine with a good book. Best of all, though, a private door opens onto the rear patio, which is surrounded by tall trees and feels quite peaceful and secluded from the rest of the neighborhood.
Up to four guests can share the space comfortably, thanks to the living area's sleeper sofa. The full bath is located off the bedroom, with a walk-in shower only (no tub). And don't leave any family members at home when you come to the beach: this Cannon Beach vacation rental is dog-friendly, though a 60 pounds weight limit, a nightly fee per dog, and minimum fee per stay will apply.
Take the pooch for a run on the dog-friendly beach just across the street, or head to nearby Ecola State Park for a challenging hike. For more laid-back fun, walk just five minutes up Hemlock Street to Cannon Beach's vibrant business district, with shopping, art galleries, and dining galore. If you need to fresh up your clothes during your stay, there is a laundromat nearby.
However you choose to spend your days, you'll love making this warm and welcoming getaway your home away from home throughout your stay!
Eric R left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
Great location! Sweet and cozy unit. It was perfect!
Jessica C left a 4 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
Christopher S left a 4 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
We loved how central this location is. Basically could walk everywhere! Loved the home!
Charles D left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
Comfy cottage feeling within walking distance to ocean and a nice restaurant with ocean view.
This was very clean and had all the comforts of home. It was very close to everything!
Daniel K left a 4 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
It was easy to get everywhere in town from this place. Walk to the beach, restaurants, etc.
We really enjoy this beautiful cozy cottage...just one block from the beach and couple of minutes from town...it's was are first time at Cannon Beach and we loved it ! We are definitely look forward to came back soon at Sabdpiper Pier Cottages ! Thank you !
Convenience to the beach and a well provided place to stay. Very comfortable and will go again.
Catherine R left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Cannon Beach, OR.
This spot is right in the middle of the main drag through Cannon Beach, which is Hemlock Street. It's not ocean front, but it's about as close as you can get. Just walk across the street and stroll down to the beach. Great restaurants and the usual shops are all a short walk away in either direction. The condo itself was immaculate, everything worked, and it had a wood burning fireplace. Make sure to stop at the local store to get wood and kindling, because none is provided.
Suite 7 is dog friendly, so that was a big plus. Perfect retreat in Cannon Beach for me & my dog to relax and have fun for a few days.
Walk everywhere. Beach is half block, down town half mile. If you like to walk and want to park and go, this place is well located and if you have dogs it's a snap to take those early morning/late night pee runs around the neighborhood.
It was a cold winter weekend retreat. Quiet, comfortable, and convenient.
Very pleasant and well kept location.
Loved staying in Cannon Beach. This unit was in a perfect location. Very easy to walk every where. Wonderful cafes, breweries and restaurants just a short walk away. As well as just a few steps from the beach!
enjoyed our stay for a week and would stay there again.
Cannon Beach is a great place to spend the weekend. Lots to see and do.
The location is great for walking to amenities but the noise from other people staying above is annoying. You can hear bathroom sounds in addition to the LOUD flushing noises from above. Guests above weren't discourteous but it was kind of disgusting nevertheless. We left a day early.
Great place that was a block away to Cannon Beach's amazing beach.
This place meets the needs to stay and enjoy the beauty of cannon beach. Plumbing is loud and you can hear them peeing upstairs especially loud at night. Sleeper sofa is only comfortable for one guest. Shower space is tight.
You won't find a better location. Four blocks from downtown and one block from the beach.
No complaints. Clean. Comfy. Close to beach and town. Will stay there again.
Write your review hereThank you for a great place.
Next time we need a place in North cannon. Tried to find one but was unable to.
My mother in law has bad knees.
It was very crowded to drive and park.
I didn't know the area well enough to ask for North or south cannon.
Misleading information - no view!
Overpriced - tight, uncomfortable quarters that were dirty.
Unhelpful staff - staff are offsite. Took over 2 hours to get a call back.
Terrible parking - 1 spot tucked away in the corner by a tree. Our vehicle didn't fit.
Don't stay here. Not worth the money. Plenty of other options with better views for a lot less money and headache.
We are sorry to see this guest was disappointed with their stay. These units are not advertised as having any ocean views, but they do have a lovely forest view. Housekeeping will be doing deep cleans after the busy summer season that will help with any areas of oversight. We do our best to answer all of our calls, or to respond quickly if we miss one, and we are very sorry to see this was not the case for this visit.
We had a wondering stay at the cottage. Great location, right in the middle of the main drag walking distance to the south and north end. The south end had a few coffee shops and the Pelican Brewing Co. The north end had more restaurants, grocery store, and other shops. The cottage fit our needs with a 2 year old. We could hear a dog running around upstairs but not really an issue. We would recommend staying at this location.
This cottage is walking distance from everything you want to do in Cannon Beach. Head out your door to the left for the Pelican Brewery, to your right for the Pig n Pancake and shopping area, or straight ahead right onto the sandy beach!
I loved the little space we had - it was perfect for the two of us. It is just big enough for a couple and small children. Of course, everyone is different. The location is great and you get a lot for not a lot of money.
Great spot for a little getaway! Walls were thin and you could hear everything upstairs but that didn't bother us!
For the most part we were very pleased with this place. It was very clean, nicely decorated, comfy bed and had most everything you'd need. WIFI was the biggest disappointment. It cut out every night of our 5 night stay. The shower is by far the smallest we'd ever seen. Definitely couldn't shave your legs in it! And the walls are pretty thin so you may want to be prepared with white noise if you're a light sleeper.
This was our first trip to the coast in a long time. We loved the condo we had. It was small..but there was just the 2 of us...so it was perfect. It was close to down town cannon beach. The beach was just across the street. The only down side to our trip was that it rained everyday, not just a little, it RAINED. But we can't control Mother Nature. We took day trips to Tillamook to the airplane museum and to the cheese factory. Then to Astoria and saw the Astoria column and a meratime museum. There is a ship wreck at Stevens state park...also check out fort Clatsup. Lots of history about Lewis and Clark here. We also found a restaurant 20 some miles back up the road going towards Portland It was a huge log cabin based around logging. Lots of chainsaw art. We had breakfast there..it was great.
Would recommend it to anyone and would stay there again.
Nice place, comfortable and closed to beach accesible to everything. Staff called to check on my during storm, I was alone there it was nice to know that they care.
Very nice little unit. Clean and tidy and well appointed. Fell asleep on a stormy night to a flickering fire in the fireplace. Very good location- easy walk to beach and downtown. Will stay again.
It's in my evaluation, excellent!!!
nice cozy convenient location to the beach and downtown. We brought our dog to enjoy our trip which was nice to see there welcoming dog basket. I had a descent stay here but don't think I'll return due to sound/noise sensitivity of the neighbors having stairs and hearing the plumbing of the showers/bathroom. It was difficult to sleep or stay asleep past 630-7am.
Enjoyed our stay! Thank you!
spent 4 days here very nice.
Could have a better outdoor grill.
We had a comfortable, restful time @ Sandpiper Pier Cottage!
We had a great stay at Sandpiper Pier Cottage. The home was just a block away from the ocean in a quiet area of the main Cannon Beach strip. We loved what Vacasa did with the home space... The front room had a kitchen, a dining area and a living area. There was also a separate bedroom and a modern shower. Everything was clean with nice touches left for the guests (doggie treats, extra towels, lighter for the fireplace, etc.). Thank you!
This was literally just a block from the beach and super close to downtown. It was well furnished, including a log in the fireplace that burned for hours. We also loved the Candyland game with my little kids! My only complain would be some pet hair on the couch and carpet. I would still recommend and visit again though!
The place is perfect for 2. The pipes from upstairs is very loud so it was hard to sleep in if those people get up early.
Great location. We will definitely come back.
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Fedor Dobronravov's business: how does a people's artist earn money
People's Artist Fyodor Dobronravov is a creative person who is concerned not only with the fate of Russian art, theater, cinema, but also with the demographic situation and other social problems. He is not interested in business, financial issues are handled by persons trusted to him. But creative activity brings good income to the actor: for one creative evening he earns up to 500 thousand rubles, and for a shooting day he is approximately paid 200 thousand rubles.
All-Russian popularity Fedor Viktorovich brought the role of Ivan Budko in the series "Matchmakers" and participation in the humorous program "6 Frames". At the end of June 2023, the actor left the Theater of Satire, where he had served since 2003, citing fatigue. Now he will have more time for filming, entreprises and creative evenings, which make up his main income.
In addition to theatrical activities, Fedor Dobronravov is engaged in business – he is the founder of the production center, artistic director of the program "In the Family Circle". According to Sobesednik, with reference to the State Procurement website, for one two-hour meeting with a viewer, he receives 500 thousand rubles. The total income of the artist allows him to have a luxurious house in Romashkovo near Moscow, travel to interesting places and remain a modest person, close to the people, and with a great sense of humor.
Production Center
The organization was established in 2016, it is engaged in filming, staging performances, organizing creative evenings for the artist. The debut film "Once Upon a Time" was filmed in 2017 in the Leningrad region. The plot is based on village life, starring Irina Rozanova, People's Artist of Russia.
Photo: during shooting.
Source: fedordobronravov.ru
Dobronravov himself believes that the country has stopped making "cinema for all times", too much bad news, action movies and blockbusters. The task of the center is to create a product that will remain in people's memory for a long time, as was the case with Soviet films.
Fedor Viktorovich had no experience in the production path, the first steps were not easy, since acquaintances helped. The shooting involved local villagers who reacted very positively to the appearance of the film crew. Dobronravov compares the poignant script with the movie "Love and Doves", hoping that the audience will also like this film. Since 2017 Once Upon a Time has been shown at various competitions, including the Bridge of Arts Motivational Film Festival in Rostov. The premiere for a large audience took place in March 2018. The producers did not have the task of making a box-office film, this film is designed for a thinking, empathizing viewer with the inhabitants of the hinterland.
Photo: Shukshin Film Festival.
In 2017, the center presented the play "Freaks", in which it also became a benefit performance for Fyodor Viktorovich. The plot is based on the stories of Vasily Shukshin, it employs only 5 actors, one of which is Dobronravov's son, Ivan. The theme of the continuity of generations is traced; during the performance, compositions performed by Mark Bernes sound. In one evening, the artist performs 9 roles on stage.
The first creative evening of Fedor Dobronravov took place in January 2019. After that, the artist and the team traveled all over Russia with the production of "Freaks" and personal meetings with the audience. In connection with the introduction of the self-isolation regime, the performances were postponed to September.
Photo: advertising creative evenings.
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Dobronravov himself is almost not interested in the financial side of the business, he invests more in the creative component. The actor's confidants, whom he has known for over 30 years, are in charge of the budget and its distribution.
"We must always remember the most important values ourselves and teach them to our children. Honor, dignity, love for our small home and for the vast Motherland – this is what we want to broadcast in all our projects. We are for good cinema!"
Theatrical life
In addition to the play "Freaks", Fedor Dobronravov plays in two more. You can meet the actor on the stage of the Millennium Enterprise Theater, here he acts as one of the spouses, caught off guard with his mistress. The show is called "Catch Me… Can You?" and is based on bearded anecdotes about adultery.
Photo: performance "Freaks".
The second performance "Where are we?! … "on the stage of the Theater of Satire, from where he quit recently. According to the director, Alexander Shirvindt, Fedor is still bound by contractual obligations, and he will play the season to the end. Dobronravov had no conflicts with management or colleagues, he quit of his own free will and maintained friendly relations with management.
"He has his own office, his own firm, full of business, and he cannot just be sewn. He will finish the performances, and so he will be a free artist "
A. Shirvindt.
Source: Gazeta.ru
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In 2018, two paintings were released with the participation of Dobronravov: "321st Siberian" and "To Paris". Both are about military operations during the Great Patriotic War. In the second film, he got one of the leading roles in the story of Soviet officers who reached Paris.
In 2019, together with recognized masters of the genre (Nina Usatova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Sergei Garmash, Mikhail Zhvanetsky), he starred as a captain in the comedy "Odessa Steamboat" by Sergei Ursulyak. The film was released on the Russia 1 channel at the beginning of 2023, consists of miniatures based on the stories of Zhvanetsky. There are 13 episodes in total, including the stories of individual characters that are intertwined with each other.
Screenshot of the tape "Odessa Steamboat"
Now in production is another part of the cult historical saga "Midshipmen – 1787" by Svetlana Druzhinina, where Dobronravov got the role of commander Suvorov. The budget for the shooting has not yet been allocated, the picture is in the process of being created. According to the KP, Fedor Viktorovich's fee will amount to 200 thousand rubles. for a day of shooting.
Also in production is the film "From Sorrow to Joy", where Dobronravov has the main role of the father of the Trifonov family, a hard worker who wants to set his eldest son on the "true path".
In 2023, the release of the seventh part of the series "Matchmakers" is planned. While the situation with the budget is not clear, as the borders are closed. The film crew "Studio Kvartal-95" by Vladimir Zelensky takes part in the creation of the film.
Fedor Dobronravov is a member of the board of trustees of the public program "In the family circle", is its artistic director. The mission of the organization is to create propaganda aimed at the revival of the family. In order to: exit the country from the demographic crisis, focus on kindness, fidelity, raising children in peace and harmony. The society works with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. The projects are related to theater, cinema, art, blogging and other areas of public life.
"In the future, I would like to make films that draw attention to crafts, raise the prestige of working professions. Such films as the Soviet cinema of our generation, for example "Girls". Lack of skill, careless attitude to one's profession is a very big problem for the entire Russian society."
F. Dobronravov.
Source: Kommersant
The actor is more engaged in creativity than business. He has a rich family of heirs: two sons, Viktor and Ivan, who are also popular film and theater artists, and three granddaughters.
Photo: with sons.
Source: @dobronravov.fedor
Fedor calls his loved ones his pride and regularly posts videos of family gatherings and meetings with friends on his Instagram page.
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\section{INTRODUCTION} \label{sec:intro}

For modern observational astronomy, flat-field correction is a
necessary and critical step in data processing, which directly affects
the accuracy of photometry.  A flat-field
correction aims to correct the non-uniform response of the optical
system and the detector, so the uniformity of the light source (a
screen illuminated by a lamp, or twilight/dark night sky) is crucial
for the effectiveness of the flat-field correction.

On the one hand, for wide-field robotic autonomous telescopes, due to
the wide field-of-view, the gradient in the surface brightness of the
twilight/dark night sky becomes a problem. In addition, the difference of the gradient
between different flat-field images affects the combined master
image precision and leaves some large-scale structures in the
master flat-field.  These large-scale structures introduce systematic
errors into the photometry.

On the other hand, obtaining a dome flat-field for robotic telescopes
automatically has a higher level of technology costs, due to its
special design (usually compact dome or no dome) and its highly automated
operation without human intervention.

A typical field-of-view of photometric telescopes mostly cover 5--10
arcminutes on the sky. The surface brightness distribution of the
twilight/night sky in such a small size is sufficient to provide
uniform illumination for flat-field correction.
However, large sky surveys require large field-of-view for survey
efficiency and there have been many telescopes with a field-of-view
much larger than 1 square degree.  Therefore the flat-field correction
for wide-field telescopes must take into account the
non-uniform surface brightness of the twilight/night sky light
seriously.  For the twilight sky, previous studies have
found that there is a brightness gradient of 2\%--5\% per degree under a
typical twilight sky observing condition\cite{chromey96,
freudling07}.  And several correlations have been found between this
gradient and observing time (i.e., solar altitude) as well as
the relative position between
the sun and the field-of-view where telescope points\cite{tyson93, chromey96}.
Even the dark night sky which is conventionally used to test the
flat-field flatness also becomes non-uniform on a large scale (e.g., 1 sq.
degrees)\cite{zhou04}.  If the sky flat-field images with stochastic
gradients are combined to create a master flat-field or supersky flat, its
accuracy and flatness will decline, but there has been little study on
this issue for large field-of-view telescopes.

This work is based on large amounts of sky flat-field data taken by
the Antarctic Survey Telescope (AST3).  AST3 consists of three
wide-field 0.5/0.68m modified Schmidt telescopes with f-ratio f/3.73\cite{cui2008, Yuan2010}.  These catadioptric telescopes were
designed for wide field-of-view (4.3 sq. degrees) survey with a
shorter tube than traditional Schmitt telescope.  They are equipped with a large
single-chip 10Kx10K CCD operated in frame transfer mode with an effective
exposure area of 10Kx5K and 16 readout channels.  On the focal plane with the plane scale of 1
arcsecond per pixel, this corresponds to 4.3 sq. degrees (1.47 deg x2.93
deg).
The thermoelectric cooling (TEC) module is used to cool the CCD chip
to below the environmental temperature at Dome A in the winter,
which is about $- 60 ^\circ C $ on average.

By analyzing the flat-field data from the AST3, we aim at 1)
investigating the uniformity of the sky brightness, the spatial distribution of the
sky brightness and its variation with time, 2) analyzing and comparing
various components in flat-field and 3) studying and optimizing the
flat-field acquisition strategies and the automatic observation
procedures.

\section{OBSERVATION AND DATA} \label{sec:data}

In January 2012, the first AST3 (AST3-1) equipped with the SDSS
i$'$-band filter was installed at Dome A, the highest place of the Antarctic
Plateau\cite{Li2012}.  When the polar day ended on 15 March,
AST3-1 began to acquire images.  Unfortunately, it stopped working on
May 8th because of a problem in the power supply system.  During the 56
day observing period, we obtained more than 22,000 images,
including 2,451 sky flat-field images.

We select the images with sky brightness in the middle of the dynamic
range of the CCD, between 15,000 and 30,000 ADU. The lower limit is to
ensure high S/N and the upper limit is to avoid non-linear response of
the CCD near saturation.  We also discard the flat-field images taken
with high CCD temperatures above $ -40^\circ C$, because the
high-level dark current at these temperatures is hard to correct
perfectly.  The average CCD temperature at which the rest of the
images were taken is $ -60^\circ C$, which corresponds to a dark
current of only 1 ADU/s.  Then we also require all images to have a sky
flux larger than 100 ADU/s so that the dark current correction is
small and does not introduce much noise.

Finally, there are 906 flat-field images left for analysis and their
average sky brightness is 22,500 ADU.

\section{Gradients in the Sky Brightness}
\label{sec:gradient}

\begin{figure} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c}
\includegraphics[height=10cm]{sp.eps} \end{tabular} \end{center}
\caption[image] {\label{fig:sp} The 2d and 3D plots of raw
image a0425.810.fit, a flat-field frame taken by AST3-1.  The
black regions in lower-left part of the image are the bad pixels which were
masked.} \end{figure}

\begin{figure} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c}
\includegraphics[height=10cm]{altsun.eps} \end{tabular} \end{center}
\caption[alt] {\label{fig:alt} The correlation between the sky
brightness and solar altitude for each individual flat-field frame in
our sample.  The solid line indicates the best fit.  By checking
the images, we found that the weird tail with
the solar altitude
below $-10^\circ$ are caused by the moonlight when the scattering
sunlight did not dominate the sky
brightness during full moon.  } \end{figure}

\begin{figure} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c}
\includegraphics[height=10cm]{azisun.eps} \end{tabular} \end{center}
\caption[azi] {\label{fig:azi} The gradient of sky brightness as a
function of the angle between telescope pointing azimuth and solar azimuth.
Every data point represents one individual flat-field frame in our
sample.  The solid line indicates the best fit.} \end{figure}

The original images of our sample have been pre-processed with a series of
steps, such as crosstalk correction (crosstalk phenomenon: the
multi-channel CCD readout inter-channel interference), overscan
correction, and dark current correction.  Finally, they are
normalized and we have
many individual-exposure pre-processed flat-field image $F_i$.

We take image a0425.810.fit as an example (Fig.~\ref{fig:sp}).  As we
can see, except for pixel-to-pixel nonuniform structure, there are
multiple large-scale structures in the individual flat-field image,
such as the vignetting and the obvious different mean values of each
readout channel due to different amplifier gains.  These all need to
be corrected by the final flat field correction.  However, in order to
derive the brightness gradient, we need to remove these large-scale
effects first, otherwise they can hide the brightness gradients and
make them hard to correct.  To do this, we apply an initial master
flat-field correction to individual images.

We combined those pre-processed images to obtain the initial master
flat-field by median stacking.  Then each individual flat-field image
is divided by this master flat-field. The resulted images consist
chiefly of the gradient component relative to the gradient of the
initial master flat-field.  Because of the median stacking
combination, the gradient in the initial master flat-field is small.
Also since we focus on correcting the pixel-to-pixel variation in the
flat field, the large-scale gradient in the initial master flat-field
does not affect our final results.
Then we fitted the individual resulted image with a two-dimensional inclined
plane $Z=a + bX +cY$ and derived the relative gradient
$G_i=\sqrt{b^2+c^2}$.

We check how the position of the Sun affects the twilight flat-field
images.  As expected, we found a close relationship between the sky
brightness $Flux_{sky}$ and solar altitude (see Fig.~\ref{fig:alt}).
We fit this relationship and obtain an empirical function:

\begin{equation} \label{eq:alt} Flux_{sky} = 10^{0.415altsun + 5.926}
\end{equation}

We also found that the sky brightness gradients of each frame $G_i$
is related to the azimuth angle $\theta_i$ between the telescope
pointing and the Sun (Fig.~\ref{fig:azi}).  The empirical function
from the fitting can be written as:

\begin{equation} \label{eq:azi}G_{i} =
10^{-0.00486\theta_{i} + 1.939} \end{equation}

These relationships confirm those in the previous studies about twilight sky
and the steady state ``standard model'' of Earth's
atmosphere\cite{tyson93, chromey96, patat06} .

\section{remove gradients and construct a master Flat-field}
\label{sec:method}

\begin{figure} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c}
\includegraphics[height=6cm]{fig4.eps} \end{tabular} \end{center}
\caption[res] {\label{fig:ex} Left: 2D and 3D plots of the flat-field
corrected image
of a0425.810.fit using the initial master flat; Middle:
the full-frame fitting result of the left image;
Right:  the channel fitting result of the left image.
The black regions in the lower-left part of each
image are the bad pixels which were masked.  } \end{figure}

\begin{figure} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c}
\includegraphics[height=7.cm]{sig1v2.eps}
\includegraphics[height=7.cm]{sig2v2.eps} \end{tabular} \end{center}
\caption[rms] {\label{fig:rms} Left: 2D and 3D plots of the master
flat RMS
image without gradient correction.  Right: 2D and 3D plots
of the master flat RMS image with gradient correction (channel fitting).
The black regions
in the lower-left part of each image are the bad pixels
which were masked. The high
RMS pixels near those black regions are affected by electron
overflow from the bad pixels.  } \end{figure}

To build the final master flat-field, we have further rejected images
which have large gradient or large fitting residuals, because the vast
majority of them have interference structure due to the presence of
cirrus or scatter light.  We have also discarded the images containing
significant star-trailing due to telescope tracking problem during the
exposure.  The final sample has 200 images.

In order to minimize the spatially dependent photometric errors, we
need to fit and remove the gradients in these 200 individual
flat-field frames before combining them.  Previous
research\cite{chromey96} have found that the wide-field frames should
display a linear gradient in the sky background.  But by checking our
images, we found that the non-uniform structure is more complex than a
simple linear inclined plane.  In addition, there are some instant
Gain changes between channels due to the instability of the
amplifiers.  So instead of fitting the full frame, we choose to fit
each channel.  This method will introduce more degree of freedom for
fitting.  Eventually, to remove the gradient, we simply divide each image by its
fit.

In general, our method to remove the gradient in the flat-field images
and obtain the final master flat-field
can be expressed as:

\begin{equation} \label{eq:dualbri} Master Flat =
median\_comb\left(\frac{F_i}{
fitting(\frac{F_i}{median\_comb(F_i)})}\right).  \end{equation}

\noindent
where $i$ denotes the ith image.  The $mediani\_comb()$ function means
the result from combining all images and the $fitting()$ function
means the fitting result and operates on each individual image.  The
fitting is actually applied to each channel of an image with a 2D plane
defined as $Z=a + bX + cZ$.  The parameter $a$ can reflect the channel
Gain variation relative to the initial master flat-field. Our fitting
method can correct this variation that otherwise introduces errors in
combination of images.

We show an example of image a0425.810.fit in Fig.~\ref{fig:ex},
including the image after divided by the initial master flat-field,
fitting result with the full-frame fitting, and fitting result with
the channel fitting.  We note that the full-frame fitting does not
account for the extra change in the Gain of each channel.

To estimate the errors from this method, we also construct the RMS
image when combining the 200 individual flat-field images to the
master flat-field.  Fig~\ref{fig:rms} shows the RMS images with and
without the gradient correction.  It is clear that obtaining the
master flat-field after the gradient correction results in a much
smaller RMS.  We also note that the difference between full-frame
fitting and channel fitting is not big, the master flat-fields of both
have a final mean RMS of 0.1-0.2\%, but the channel fitting method can
reduce the spatial error in the combined master flat-field to the
negligible level compared to the photon noise.

\section{Strategy for Taking Flat-field} \label{secsstrategy}

Based on our experiments and results, we suggest the following
strategy for taking the sky flat-field images in order to achieve more
flatness and high accuracy for wide-field telescope.

1) Determine the start and end time of taking the flat-field images by
calculating the local altitude of the Sun;

2) Point the telescope toward the null point where the sky brightness
gradient is minimal (towards anti-sun direction, altitude 75 degrees);

3) Take a short-exposure image to determine the zero point of the sky
brightness in eq.~\ref{eq:alt} for that date;

4) Calculate the exposure time based on eq.~\ref{eq:alt}, which
provides the relationship between the sky brightness and the solar
altitude.

5) Take flat-field images with tracking;

6) After about 30 seconds of multiple exposures or a single exposure
longer than 30 seconds, point the telescope back toward the null point
again, and repeat steps 4 and 5.

Based on the above observing strategy, we have developed a program to
take flat-field images automatically.  The automated program improves
the efficiency and accuracy of flat-field taking during the limited
twilight time for each day.

\section{CONCLUSIONS} \label{sec:conclusion}

We have studied the sky flat-field images of the wide-field telescope
AST3-1 from the observation in 2012 at Dome~A, Antarctica.  We have
developed the relationships between local solar position, telescope
pointing direction, and the flux and gradients of sky brightness.  We
have found that a 1\% level of the gradient within our field of view is
hard to avoid even if the telescope is pointed to the null point where
the gradient of sky brightness is minimum and stable.  This gradient
will have impacts on photometric accuracy and stability which are
especially critical to the time domain astronomy.  We tested various
fitting methods to remove the gradient in each individual flat-field
frames before combination.  The optimal method could reduce spatially
dependent errors in the combined master flat-field to the negligible
level.

Based on the real-time sky brightness distribution, we have optimized
the twilight flat-field acquisition and suggested an automatic
flat-field observing procedure in order to  observe a more stable and
uniform sky.  With this observational strategy we can minimize the
nonuniformity of light source.  Our optimized flat-fielding not only
improves the image quality and photometric accuracy for achieving the
scientific goals of AST3, but will also provide scientific evidence
and guidance of flat-fielding for other wide-field robotic autonomous
telescopes.

\acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the National Basic Research Program of
China (973 Program) under grand No. 2013CB834900, the Chinese Polar
Environment Comprehensive Investigation \& Assessment Programmes under
grand No. CHINARE2014-02-03, and the National Natural Science
Foundation of China under grant No. 11003027, 11203039, and 11273019.

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The Indian bowling coach expressed delight at improved showings of the right-arm seamer and explained the tweaks he has made to his game.
By Kashish Chadha Sat, 21 Jan 2023
India's bowling coach Paras Mhambrey was all praise for the in-form Mohammed Siraj, lauding the Indian speedster after a phenomenal string of one-day games for the side. Mhambrey stressed the Hyderabad seamer could be a vital cog for India, not just looking at the World Cup but also beyond.
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All 42 have lived in a United Nations-run Protection of Civilians Camp in Juba since July, when fighting broke out in the capital. They were too afraid to leave because they were affiliated with ousted former First Vice President Riek Machar. The men, women and children boarded a chartered flight to Cyprus on Saturday, officials said.
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Lam said the government helped the 42 South Sudanese board the bus that drove them to Juba International Airport.
At least six of the 42 did not hold dual citizenship, according to Lam.


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Villey-Saint-Étienne est une commune française située dans le département de Meurthe-et-Moselle, en région Grand Est.

Géographie

La commune de Villey est délimitée à l'Est et au Sud par la vallée de la Moselle, au nord par la vallée du ruisseau le Terrouin (et son contrefort boisé) et son affluent le Longeau et à l'Est et sud-est par le ruisseau du mauvais lieu dans un bois communal. Le ruisseau de la Naue (Naux) arrose également ce territoire.

Le ban communal d'une surface de  est à une altitude moyenne de  environ. Selon les données Corine Land Cover, il est composé à part quasi égales de forêts et de prairies ou terres arables pour 80 %, le solde se répartissant entre zones humides, (4%) et zones anthropisées (y compris les carrières). Les exploitations agricoles (fermes) sont plutôt situées le long de l'axe Toul-Dieulouard.

Communes limitrophes

Urbanisme

Typologie
Villey-Saint-Étienne est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Nancy, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (47,2 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (47,9 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (39,3 %), terres arables (25,6 %), prairies (14 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (7,6 %), eaux continentales (4,2 %), zones urbanisées (3,5 %), zones industrielles ou commerciales et réseaux de communication (3 %), espaces ouverts, sans ou avec peu de végétation (2,8 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
Villa Vidiliaca cum ecclesia, Vedeliacum cum basilica, in comitatu Tullensi, Villa quæ Videliacus dicitur, Villeyum, Villeyum Sancti-Stephani (1402), Viliez-Saint-Estienne (1594) et Villers-Saint-Étienne (1719), sont les graphies rencontrées dans le Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe.

Villey est très ancien : il formait déjà une commune assez importante dans le ; et l'Évêque de Toul, Ludelme, en fit don à sa cathédrale à la même époque : on le nommait alors Videliacus, ou Villae-Sancti-Stephani

Ce nom est formé d'un anthroponyme VIDEL(us) accolé au mot -iacum, suffixe désignant un village postérieurement dédié à Saint Stéphane.

Au cours de la Révolution française, la commune porte le nom de Villey-sur-Moselle

Histoire
Le territoire de la commune de Villey-Saint-Étienne a livré de nombreux indices de l'occupation humaine depuis l'âge de pierre. Sa situation au sud d'une liaison naturelle entre les monts Saint-Michel (mont Bar) et côtes Barine et la Moselle au Nord-Est et en surplomb de la rivière l'ont surement favorisé.

Période préhistorique
Jules Beaupré signale :«Nombreux silex taillés, pointes de flèches, de dards, haches polies en silex, etc., recueillis par M. Gruyer, instituteur. (Musée lorrain.)»«Dans la forêt communale dite Bois Laroppe entre le chemin de fer et le chemin de Toul, on a trouvé des ossements humains dans des tumuli. En déblayant les terres, au-dessus de l'emplacement de la carrière Solway, on découvrit en 1886 à des profondeurs variant entre 0 m,60 et 0 m,80 des sépultures de l'âge dit du bronze. Les objets qu'elles contenaient, torques et bracelets, ont été déposés au Musée lorrain. (Dr Bleicher et Wiener. — Notice sur la découverte d'une station de l'âge du bronze à Villey-Saint-Étienne.. — (Mémoires de la Société d'Archéologie lorraine, 1886.) Nous avons exploré en 1897 des tumuli situés dans la coupe n° 13 de la forêt communale dite Bois de Toul. Ils recouvraient des sépultures par inhumation et par incinération. Le mobilier funéraire, bien que très pauvre, permet de les dater, comme les sépultures découvertes en 1886, de la fin de la période de Hallstatt. Il existait dans les vignes au lieu-dit Haut de Chazot, vis-à-vis Fontenoy, une enceinte dont les remblais sont aujourd'hui nivelés par la culture.»La carte archéologique de Gaule, département 54, indique que le mobilier de ces découvertes, déposé dans les deux musées lorrain et de Toul, appartiendrait à la période de la Tène ancienne (460 av. J.-C. - 400 av. J.-C : Phases A et B) bien que des publications successives ont proposé des datations plus anciennes.

Ces inhumations pourraient donc être en rapport avec un site d'occupation proche comme le lieu-dit les hauts de Chazot ou le village lui-même, à cette époque.

Période gallo-romaine

Cette période est moins bien connue sur le territoire de la commune, mais les répertoires archéologiques mentionnent des découvertes indices de l'occupation pendant la Pax Romana : «Au lieu-dit Saint-Martin, tuiles à rebord : selon Olry, des monnaies romaines et des vases cinéraires ont  été trouvés à plusieurs endroits.»«Au lieu-dit Aux odieux, A. Lieger signale en 1999 un établissement gallo-romain trahi par la présence de pierres de construction et de tessons de céramique (sigillée). Au lieu-dit En Mornangle, sont signalés des éléments identiques, ces deux occupations dateraient du  de notre ère. (CAG, HAMM, Gilles)»

Période Mérovingienne
Au lieu-dit En haut des tombeaux (Tomboux) , particulièrement évocateur, a été mise à jour en 1936, le long de la voie Toul-Dieulouard, une nécropole mérovingienne (période de 500 à 700) de 120 sépultures dont le mobilier est conservé dans les musées de Metz et Jarville.
Les archéologues ont pour hypothèse que les sépultures mérovingiennes étaient rarement isolées, qu'elles étaient groupées le plus souvent en cimetières plus ou moins importants, en général près d'une voie de circulation (mais cela vient sans doute du fait que les voies se trouvaient justement près des lieux sacrés), que les morts étaient alignés et les femmes séparées des hommes. Ces sépultures révèlent toutefois clairement une occupation soit de villages, soit de places royales (royaume des Francs orientaux, constitué à partir de l'ancien territoire des Francs Ripuaires) et, en tout cas, ces sépultures sont à raccrocher à une église proche. Selon E Salins, le mobilier des tombes indiquerait que les hommes étaient de culture alémanique et les femmes plutôt gallo-romaines.

Moyen Âge jusqu'à la révolution

Les historiens perdent la trace écrite de la communauté de Villey-Saint-Étienne et son église du . Toutefois comme l'illustre un article paru aux études touloises, l"entretien et parfois l'agrandissement de l'église Saint-Martin de Villey feront l'objet de maints échanges entre les représentants du clergé et les habitants par des écrits entre 1712 et 1785. Dans la seconde moitié du  une maison forte fut édifié en surplomb de la Moselle, offrant ainsi une vue imprenable sur toute la vallée.

Le constructeur de cette maison forte ainsi que l'utilisation de celle-ci restent inconnus jusqu'au  son premier propriétaire connu est Louis 1er de la Mothe, Conseiller d'État, Maître des requêtes du Duc Charles III depuis 1560, Seigneur de Froidos, Marchéville et Lanfroicourt, qui ne demeurait pas dans la Grosse Maison, mais à Lanfroicourt.

En juillet 1609, les chanoines du chapitre de la Cathédrale de Toul acquièrent cette demeure. Les archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle conservent la trace de la mise en vente des biens du clergé devant le directoire (de Toul) et notamment la division de cette maison en lots.

Époque contemporaine

La commune a vu la construction du canal de la Marne au Rhin, en contrebas du plateau, dans le lit majeur de la Moselle (rivière), puis son déclassement et son remblaiement partiel au moment de la canalisation de la Moselle à grand gabarit en 1976.

Entre 1906 et 1909 deux ouvrages défensifs du système Séré de Rivière, dit du Vieux canton et du Mordant ont pris place sur le ban communal.

Construit en  1991, le site de production Kimberly-Clark de Villey-Saint-Étienne, (Zonage ZL), a diversifié son activité. D'abord vouée à la production de papier-toilette, l'usine se consacre depuis 2016 exclusivement à la fabrication d'essuie-mains à destination des professionnels : hôpitaux, collectivités, industries, bureaux, hôtels, restaurants.

Le 5 août 2011, une tornade classée F-1 sur l'échelle de Fujita frappe Villey-Saint-Étienne, et provoque quelques dégâts.

Politique et administration

 Claude BRUAN(T) 1641-1698, maire en 1679 - Vigneron et laboureur.

Population et société

Démographie

Économie
H. Lepage indique dans son dictionnaire des communes de Meurthe au sujet de l'activité économique du  :«Surf. territ. : 1 729 hect.; 885 en terres lab., 167 en prés, 85 en vignes, 495 en bois. Moulin à grains, carrières de pierres de taille»confirmant le caractère agricole et viticole de l'économie.

Secteur primaire ou agriculture
Le secteur primaire comprend, outre les exploitations agricoles et les élevages, les établissements liés à l'exploitation de la forêt et les pêcheurs.
D'après le recensement agricole 2010 du ministère de l'Agriculture (Agreste), la commune de Villey-Saint-Étienne était majoritairement orientée sur la polyculture et le poly - élevage (auparavant même production) sur une surface agricole utilisée d'environ 622 hectares (inférieure à la surface cultivable communale) quasi stable depuis 1988 - Le cheptel en unité de gros bétail s'est réduit de 473 à 280 entre 1988 et 2010. Il y avait encore 8 (10 en 1988) exploitation(s) agricole(s) ayant leur siège dans la commune employant 10 unité(s) de travail, (jusqu'à 10 auparavant) ce qui plaçait la commune parmi celles dont l'activité agricole s'était maintenue mais resserrée.

Secteur secondaire ou Industrie

Une usine de l'entreprise américaine Kimberly-Clark est implantée sur le territoire de la commune.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Édifices civils et militaires

 Fort du Vieux-Canton : Ouvrage du Vieux-Canton-est, Ouvrage du bas du chêne, Ouvrage Ouest du Vieux-Canton, Ouvrage du Mordant
 Nécropole alémanique et mérovingienne fouillée en 1936 et abritant environ 115 sépultures des -s.
 La maison-forte  ou Grosse-Maison objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis 1988: reconstruite au , elle dépendait à l'époque du chapitre de Toul, : tourelle d'escalier, fenêtres à meneaux, caves avec fenêtres de tir fin
 Pigeonnier du  construit en 1658 dans les combles de la Maison forte
Petite halte de plaisance

Édifices religieux
 Église du  avec une tour fortifiée avec archères du .
 Presbytère du .

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Louise Pons, agricultrice ayant fait l'objet d'un reportage dans Le Petit Rapporteur.

Héraldique

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 1906- Beaupré, Jules (18..-1921) Observations concernant les tumulus de Villey-Saint-Étienne (fouilles de 1906) par le Cte J. Beaupré,...Impr. de A. Crépin-Leblond
 Manet, Léon (abbé) Abbé Léon Manet. Le Château de Villey-Saint-Etienne (1450-1831). Lettre-préface de Mgr Jérôme
 Abbé Léon Marnet. Villey-Saint-Etienne pendant la Révolution. Les biens nationaux vendus de 1791 à 1798
 Bleicher, Gustave (Dr) Sur les Ossements fossiles d'une fissure de la carrière de Villey-Saint-Étienne, par M. le Dr Bleicher impr. de Berger-Levrault
 1930 Manet, Léon (abbé) Villey-Saint-Étienne. Le Livre d'or de la Grande Guerre, par l'abbé Léon Manet. Avec préface de Mgr Buch, évêque de Strasbourg et Lettre du maréchal Lyautey
 La boucle de la Moselle : villes et villages du Toulois / Daniel Jacques et Gérard Howald ; préf. de Michel Hachet - 1999
G. Hamm, Carte Archéologique de la Gaule. 54. La Meurthe-et-Moselle, Paris, 2005.

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de Meurthe-et-Moselle

Liens externes
 Villey-Saint-Étienne sur le site de l'Insee
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Notes et références

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Références

Commune en Meurthe-et-Moselle
Commune ayant porté un nom révolutionnaire en Meurthe-et-Moselle
Villes et villages fleuris en Meurthe-et-Moselle
Aire urbaine de Nancy
Localité sur la Moselle en France

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