In Pacific Beach, they\u2019ve extended by two hours and to Sunday’s within commercial areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not really a big fan of parking meters, or that they\u2019re going to extend it even longer,\u201d Michael Trimble said.<\/p>\n
This is how Trimble felt after learning the City of San Diego recently adjusted parking meters in Pacific Beach to reflect longer operating hours.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not alone.<\/p>\n
Trimble is among the chorus of people who are not thrilled with the City of San Diego extending parking meter enforcement in Pacific Beach to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very expensive, and we had to look for probably like 15 minutes, so it cost like $20 for two hours of parking,\u201d Liam Foley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exhausting. It\u2019s exhausting. Especially when you\u2019re already paying an exorbitant amount to live here. It\u2019s just constantly being hypervigilant over getting a ticket, or you know, getting cited,\u201d Teresa Murphy said.<\/p>\n
The City of San Diego said the changes are part of an effort to bring the city\u2019s parking practices and pricing in line with most major cities in California.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also part of an effort to help the city raise more revenue to cover its budget shortfall.<\/p>\n
The city said the additional hours in areas with high occupancy can significantly improve parking availability and overall traffic flow, adding that the revenue collected from the extended hours will help pay for long-overdue infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n
To some residents the idea sounds promising.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love the money to come back to the community, but who knows if it will,\u201d Jacob Thurston said.<\/p>\n
While others said they would like to see proof.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like if you\u2019re going to charge people more for parking and extended, they need to start on the roads,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n
The executive director of Discover Pacific Beach, which oversees businesses in the district, declined to comment on the changes.<\/p>\n
However, she did tell NBC 7 the city had previously agreed to give community parking districts 45 percent of the additional revenue, but recent reforms approved by the city council have changed that to 15 percent.<\/p>\n
She also said the city told her the increased parking rates would make up for the adjustment to the percentage parking districts will now receive.<\/p>\n
While Trimble understand the city\u2019s effort to gain revenue, he hopes it doesn\u2019t end up hurting businesses in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s great, but it\u2019s also blocking people from coming, because they\u2019re going to have people that are going to feed the meter all day. And so, it\u2019s going to limit space for everybody else, especially at the beach communities,\u201d Trimble said.<\/p>\n
Meter hours in uptown and downtown will also be extended by two hours and extended to Sundays in commercial areas later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Pacific Beach, they\u2019ve extended by two hours and to Sunday’s within commercial areas. \u201cI\u2019m not really a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,24152,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-173503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-pacific-beach","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115087666310697194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173503","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=173503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}