{"id":383539,"date":"2025-11-16T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:49:09","slug":"balboa-park-parking-fees-an-attack-on-our-quality-of-life-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383539\/","title":{"rendered":"Balboa Park parking fees an attack on our quality of life \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cFacing public outrage, San Diego scales back plan to charge for parking in Balboa Park\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/13\/facing-public-outrage-san-diego-scales-back-plan-to-charge-for-parking-in-balboa-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oct. 13<\/a>): I can\u2019t think of anything the mayor and City Council could do to harm our quality of life faster than to impose parking fees in Balboa Park. The park is there to get away from the hustle and bustle of city living. To force the people of San Diego to pull out their wallets and pay to breathe the air and enjoy the scenery of our classic park defeats the whole purpose of a park.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 William Franklin, Mission Hills<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a picture hanging on my wall of my grandfather standing next to his streetcar advertising the new San Diego Zoo. I am elderly. My family has lived in the city, out of the city, but always in San Diego County for five generations and counting. I feel disenfranchised that since we now live outside of the city, we are going to be charged twice as much for parking as a newcomer. I feel especially sorry and sad for the children of middle- and low-income families who might have very limited experiences that we older generations were always able to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid, stupid, stupid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jill Buchanan Morgan, Poway<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cFacing public outrage, San Diego scales back plan to charge for parking in Balboa Park\u201d (Oct. 13):&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":383540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-383539","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-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115560878283344300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383539","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=383539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}