[if lt IE 9]> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementById('page-body').className += ' old-ie'; </script> <![endif] City Insider City Insider – Local news Posted on Monday, June 23 at 8:01am | By John Coté Print — Using an iPhone application to auction off your street parking space to someone circling the block might sound tailor-made for a tech-savvy, parking-space-starved, high-cost-of-living city like San Francisco. It might, except it’s illegal. That’s the opinion of City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who sent a cease-and-desist letter Monday to MonkeyParking, threatening the Rome-based tech startup with a lawsuit, saying the business model for its mobile app is entirely premised on illegal transactions. Herrera, in a letter to MonkeyParking CEO Paolo Dobrowolny, says city law prohibits anyone from buying or selling public street parking ...