However, the map of the meters inside that zone is causing a little controversy.<\/p>\n
Residents on the edge say they are closer to a mile away from the park, and shouldn’t have to pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bigger issue is they said it’s within a half mile of Petco Park, and we are further than a half mile but included in the increased rate. It’s not right for us, it’s not right for residents,\u201d said Kristine Kappel, a resident in the Marina District.<\/p>\n
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City of San Diego<\/p>\n
City map showing the areas that will charge $10 per hour for parking during special events at Petco Park.<\/p>\n
The increased rates begin two hours before the event and four hours after the official start time.<\/p>\n
So for a typical 6:40 pm Padres game, meters will be $10 an hour from 4:40 p.m. to 10:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, now with the new rates we’re gonna have to pay attention to when are the Padres games? When are the concerts? I never had to pay attention to that before, so now I have to schedule my life around when these games are and when I can have people come over, when before it really was not a part of our lives,\u201d said Kappel.<\/p>\n
A city representative told ABC 10News that having multiple rates on the same block would cause confusion, so that’s why some extra areas were included or excluded from the zone.<\/p>\n
There is no specific restriction on the size of the special event pricing zone that the city has to follow, and funds will head back into the budget. <\/p>\n
Vehicles with a disabled placard or license plate will continue to be able to park at meters throughout the City for free, including in the Special Event Zone during events.<\/p>\n
There are 17 special events currently scheduled for September: 14 Padres home games, two sold-out Savannah Bananas baseball games (Sept. 5-6) and a Chris Brown concert (Sept. 17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The typical scene for an event downtown now will come with a higher price. Beginning in September, any…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[1632,5229,82396,1582,276,82397,2879,50,14420,3549,7264,25460,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-137210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-1632","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-baseball-games","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-downtown-parking","14":"tag-events","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-petco-park","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-special-event","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115010737575818064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}