{"id":196442,"date":"2026-02-27T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:09:07","slug":"balboa-park-paid-parking-plan-scaled-back-again-star-94-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196442\/","title":{"rendered":"Balboa Park Paid Parking Plan Scaled Back \u2014 Again | STAR 94.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city of San Diego is again scaling back\u00a0its plan to charge residents to park in Balboa Park after the rollout received widespread pushback from residents and local leaders.<\/p>\n

Starting Monday, San Diego residents —\u00a0who are verified via an online portal<\/a>\u00a0— may park for free all day at seven of the 12 lots in Balboa Park. Five lots considered “premium” will continue to have a fee, although verified residents will\u00a0pay half-price through the portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city also scaled back paid parking hours. Previously set to end at 8 p.m., parking enforcement will now begin at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

And, after complaints regarding parking for those with disabilities, drivers with a disabled-person license plate or placard may park for free all day at any available spot in the lots and on park roads, along with blue ADA spaces.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Gloria\u00a0backed off some of the parking fees<\/a>\u00a0instituted in January, citing overwhelming negative feedback to the plan. While the changes will likely win favor immediately amongst San Diegans, they portend some bad tidings in the near future.<\/p>\n

The city’s budget last year was balanced on speculative revenue sources such as the parking in Balboa Park, which was postponed for months, likely costing the city millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of San Diego is again scaling back\u00a0its plan to charge residents to park in Balboa Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,7,63711,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855],"class_list":["post-196442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-balboa-park","tag-california","tag-paid-parking","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}