{"id":285495,"date":"2026-04-25T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:24:08","slug":"dont-trust-promises-about-balboa-park-parking-revenue-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285495\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t trust promises about Balboa Park parking revenue \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cBalboa Park groups see drop in visitors\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/04\/20\/balboa-park-institutions-warn-of-drop-in-visits-while-city-data-show-parking-revenue-keeps-rising\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21<\/a>): Mayor Todd Gloria is clearly not concerned about the sharp decline in park visitors and the resulting threat to the park\u2019s future. His overriding interest in our \u201ccrown jewel\u201d seems to be how much money he can wring out of it.<\/p>\n<p>And his exculpatory claim that parking fee revenues benefit the park raises doubts. We need verifiable proof. How much of that money actually goes to the park? Does it go directly to the park as over-and-above support? Or does it go into the general fund where it replaces the current meagre park allotment and frees up that money for other uses?<\/p>\n<p>City Hall has two choices. Give us a full accounting of exactly how Balboa Park parking fee revenues are spent. Or stop the spin doctoring that disrespects us and makes us even angrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Callen, North Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cBalboa Park groups see drop in visitors\u201d (April 21): Mayor Todd Gloria is clearly not concerned about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-285495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","9":"tag-opinion","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285495","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=285495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}