{"id":226433,"date":"2026-03-19T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:43:15","slug":"campillo-ballot-proposal-to-keep-beach-bay-parking-free-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226433\/","title":{"rendered":"Campillo ballot proposal to keep beach, bay parking free advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/OB-Pier-parking-lot-opens.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OB-Pier-parking-lot-opens.jpg\" alt=\"Beach parking lots open in line with city restrictions loosening. Ocean Beach Pier parking was nearly filled early in the morning.\" class=\"wp-image-116015\" style=\"width:810px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>An Ocean Beach parking lot. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego City Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/council-committees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rules Committee<\/a> Wednesday initially approved a proposed ballot measure by Councilman Raul Campillo to keep parking at the city\u2019s beaches and bays free unless voters decide otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a slate of ballot measures being considered Wednesday by the committee, Campillo\u2019s measure was advanced to a second committee discussion for further consideration. If approved at the second reading, it would advance to the full City Council for final approval and be placed on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought this item forward in hopes of making sure the city does not repeat the same mistake we saw with the proposed parking fees at Balboa Park,\u201d Campillo said. \u201cThis is about making sure access to our most treasured public spaces remains clear, protected and accountable to the people of San Diego \u2014 and it\u2019s just one part of a larger series of transparency and accountability initiatives I will be bringing forward in an effort to clean up City Hall and ensure we have the right protocols in place moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parking at beaches and bays in the city is currently free. The ballot measure would insert that practice into the city\u2019s code. It would not apply to existing parking meters or other paid parking programs elsewhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p>If passed by the committee again, Campillo\u2019s office will work with the city attorney and independent budget analyst to \u201cprovide preliminary fiscal, operational, and legal analyses of the proposal and draft the framework for a ballot measure,\u201d according to the paperwork filed with the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ocean Beach parking lot. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) The San Diego City Council\u2019s Rules&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[54269,16786,74,13134,76,75],"class_list":["post-226433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-free-parking","tag-raul-campillo","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-city-council","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226433","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=226433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}