Raul Campillo\u2019s <\/a>proposed no-paid parking ballot initiative was supported by Council President Joe LaCava of District 1 and Councilmember Vivian Moreno of District 8. <\/p>\nCouncilmembers Kent Lee of District 6 and Sean Elo-Rivera of District 9 dissented.<\/p>\n
Campillo\u2019s legislative initiative would place protections directly into the City\u2019s Municipal Code, ensuring that parking at local beaches and bays remains free until or unless voters choose otherwise.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Times of San Diego, Campillo explained why he is coming forward with this initiative now during a time he described as being \u201can all-time low\u201d for public trust in local government. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to send a signal that we are listening to our constituents, that we want to earn that trust back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Campillo cited the city\u2019s recent attempt to charge for parking in Balboa Park as an example of how current council policy seeking to increase revenues through taxation has \u201cbackfired,\u201d with constituent\u2019s voices not being heard.<\/p>\n
Asked what his ballot proposal intends to do, Campillo said it will \u201cgive the voters the chance to make it a city law, that the city council and the mayor can\u2019t charge them to park at beaches and bays, like at La Jolla Shores Parking Lot and Mission Bay Park, in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of his ballot measure, Campillo pointed out it\u2019s not going to impact parking meters along the streets near the beach, nor those existing parking lots, usually on private property, that are already charging for parking. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important that it be a ballot measure where the voters can make it a law, and only the voters can undo that law,\u201d Campillo said.<\/p>\n
Campillo also took issue with those who have contended that the city never really intended to charge residents to park in Balboa Park. <\/p>\n
\u201cI called foul on that,\u201d he said adding, \u201cI voted no because the timing was bad, there was no equity for those with low incomes, and because it was hurting Balboa Park\u2019s museums and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The councilmember also was not on board with the notion of taxing or not taxing people for parking according to whether or not they were city residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis pitting of people who might be able to vote for us, versus people in other cities, really is a political ploy,\u201d said Campillo adding, \u201cWe should be voting to keep parking free at the city\u2019s beaches and bays because our own city residents want it. The bottom line is, it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campillo said his free beach and bay parking initiative is part of a \u201clarger series of transparency and accountability initiatives\u201d that he intends to roll out in the coming months. He said one such initiative is an anti-corruption measure to uniformly set a two-year \u201ccooling off\u201d period before former city employees are allowed to become city lobbyists. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just about listening to what the public is saying about their pocketbooks,\u201d said Campillo. \u201cIt\u2019s about the city operating in a more transparent way, and holding ourselves accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campillo\u2019s no-parking fee ballot initiative for parks and beaches has to come back to the council\u2019s Rules Committee for one more reading before being passed along to the full council. The deadline for the council to put it on the ballot for a vote is Aug. 6.<\/p>\n
He added that if the measure makes it to the ballot, it will require a simple majority \u2014 50% plus one \u2014 to be passed by the voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set beach parking free, say some San Diego lawmakers. The San Diego City Council\u2019s Rules Committee recently voted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":676835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,285211,1582,276,8079,11415,20034,61457,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-676834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-beach-parking","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-free-parking","tag-paid-parking","tag-parking","tag-raul-campillo","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116280581596268311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676834","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=676834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}