City Council Set to Reconsider Metered Parking Around Balboa Park

Morning Report: No More Free Parking at Balboa

Balboa Park visitors can forget about free parking.  The San Diego City Council on Monday OK’d parking fees for Balboa Park. They agreed to delay charging for parking until city staff develop frequent visitor passes, but that move could cost the city millions.  Councilmembers dropped some parking rates for residents and increased rates for tourists and non-residents. The Union-Tribune has more on the rates. City staff also plan to release a resi…

San Diego approves parking fees for Balboa Park, but delays start date several months

The San Diego City Council voted 6-2 Monday to begin charging parking fees in Balboa Park for the first time, but council members delayed the start date by several months and granted many park users some major concessions. The concessions and the delayed start — from Oct. 6 to sometime in early 2026 — will cost the city several million dollars that officials had been counting on to balance their budget and avoid emergency cuts. The concessions i…

Yes to paid parking for Balboa Park: Eventually

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) The San Diego City Council is taking another step towards paid parking at Balboa Park -- but not without a fight from San Diegans in the form of a roughly two-and-a-half-hour-long public comment.I think that's grossly unfair, said one public commenter.Hours of pushing back against the proposed fees didn't stop them, but it did slow the implementation down.The council is pushing back paid parking until quarterly and annual parkin…

City Council set to reconsider metered parking around Balboa Park

A parking meter in San Diego. (Jennifer Vigil/Times of San Diego) The San Diego City Council will again consider an ordinance to establish metered parking in a portion of Balboa Park, following a discussion last week which sent it back to city staff. Council President Joe LaCava suggested that it would be better to move the proposal to Monday’s meeting, giving city staff time to work on it. The ordinance calls for “exploring the implementation o…

San Diego City Council set to vote on paid parking rates for Balboa ...

San Diego City Council to once again consider Balboa Park Parking fees

The San Diego City Council is set to again consider an ordinance to establish metered parking in a portion of Balboa Park, following a discussion last week that sent it back to city staff. Council President Joe LaCava suggested that it would be better to move the proposal to Monday’s meeting, giving city staff time to work on it. The...