The city of San Diego is making the decision to charge for parking in Balboa Park. They intend to put parking meters on all the streets in Balboa Park and charge $2.50 per hour.
All parking lots (with the exception of the Zoo’s parking lot) are classified in one of three tiers:
Tier One includes all parking for the Balboa Park Club, Recital Hall & the Santa Fe Room.
Went to the Balboa Park Advisory Committee meeting Sept 15th. There were so many visitors they had to move the meeting from the Santa Fe room to the dance floor. Estimate that there were about 80-100 people there. About 50 were allowed to speak for one minute. Spoke for one minute and compared this plan to Covid-19 in terms of how it could affect our clubs. Every person who spoke was against the parking plan! One of the Balboa Park Club members announced that the councilman who represents Balboa Park would not vote for the parking plan in its current form. They also read some e-mails from citizens who were all against the plan. At the end of the meeting the Balboa Park Committee unanimously voted agains the plan.
Channel 8 and channel 5 were there, so you may see a story about the meeting on the news tonight. We need to keep up the pressure on the city council if we are going to defeat this plan. Please help us spread the word.