How Much to Park at Balboa Park<\/strong><\/p>\n Mayor Todd Gloria has released new details on the city\u2019s plan to charge Balboa Park visitors for parking.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what we know about the proposal:<\/strong><\/p>\n The City Council will hear the proposal at the end of July. If approved, the meters could be installed in fall 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n North County Report: Del Mar Wants Its Zoning Power Back<\/strong><\/p>\n Del Mar has joined the North County cities of Encinitas, Oceanside and San Marcos in endorsing a plan to bring land-use and zoning control back to cities, reports our Tigist Layne.\u00a0<\/p>\n The four cities have endorsed a ballot measure called Our Neighborhood Voices which would change the state constitution by giving cities, rather than the state, the ultimate authority on where and how much housing can be built.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe mayor and I truly believe in affordable housing,\u201d one councilmember said. \u201cWe\u2019re advocates for that, but we\u2019re also advocates of having accurate numbers and being able to maintain some of the things that are unique to this area\u2026 and that\u2019s our community character, and I think that\u2019s under assault as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Read the full North County Report here<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio is once again promoting a proposed statewide ballot initiative, despite his habit of not submitting any signatures to have them actually qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, DeMaio launched<\/a> a new effort to get a statewide voter ID ballot initiative on the ballot in 2026. It would require the state to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote, and voters would have to provide identification at the polls.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s identical to a ballot initiative DeMaio promoted in 2023 and another one in 2021, but DeMaio submitted zero signatures for those ballot initiatives to the Secretary of State, automatically disqualifying them from election ballots.<\/p>\n In fact, Voice of San Diego previously reported<\/a> that DeMaio has promoted but failed to deliver any signatures on five total ballot measures since 2015.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n DeMaio said it was part of a larger strategy to lay the groundwork for the initiative to qualify for the 2026 election ballot. Read more about that here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Other News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Morning Report was written by Will Huntsberry, Mariana Mart\u00ednez Barba, Tigist Layne, Jim Hinch and Tessa Balc. It was edited by Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South County Democrats are increasingly willing to go against environmentalists, writes our Jim Hinch.\u00a0 Hinch points to a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,9081,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-69633","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-morning-report","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\/114868075067766073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69633","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=69633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Balboa-Park_0008-1024x683.jpg\")
Balboa Park on March 24, 2025. \/ Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n\n
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People walk near the ocean in Del Mar on Jan. 2, 2024. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Recall-Newsom-Election-Day-Event-1.jpg\")
Carl DeMaio speaks at a Recall Newsom event in Escondido on Sept. 14, 2021. \/ Photo by Adriana Heldiz<\/p>\n\n