{"id":388281,"date":"2026-07-06T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:53:11","slug":"la-mesa-has-a-new-hotspot-for-parking-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388281\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mesa has a new hotspot for parking tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-3.13.45-PM.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-3.13.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-390746\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a>5700 Block of Baltimore Drive (Photo by Aimee Westcott\/ Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stretch of Baltimore Drive in La Mesa, just north of Lake Murray, is the city of La Mesa\u2019s epicenter for parking tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Parking enforcement officers have issued more tickets along the 5700 block of Baltimore Drive than any other place in the city so far this year, according to records obtained by the Times of San Diego through a public records request.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 1, La Mesa parking officers cited 77 vehicles parked along Baltimore Drive for failing to make way for street sweepers. So far this year, the stretch of Baltimore has more citations than any single block in La Mesa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to La Mesa Police spokesperson Lt. Travis Higgins, the 5700 block of Baltimore Drive, as well as its surrounding blocks, are swept every two weeks under the city\u2019s street\u2011sweeping schedule as part of the city\u2019s efforts to maintain clean streets and medians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat area is a no-parking area due to street sweeping on every other Friday. I drove by the location, and there appears to be adequate signage advising motorists of the parking regulation,\u201d said Lt. Higgins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Violations for parking in designated street-sweeping zones carry a $42.50 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other parking citation hotspots in the city included the 8300 block of Allison Ave in La Mesa\u2019s business district where parking officers have issued 74 tickets \u2014 mostly for expired meters \u2014 since the beginning of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to city data, parking in designated street sweeping zones and other no parking areas is the most frequent parking ticket issued in the city of La Mesa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 2,250 parking citations from January 1 through mid-June, parking officers issued 886 tickets for parking in restricted zones. The next highest parking violations so far this year is for expired meters with 782 citations. The third highest parking violation is parking along a red curb, for which parking officers wrote 149 tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5700 Block of Baltimore Drive (Photo by Aimee Westcott\/ Times of San Diego) A stretch of Baltimore Drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156559,6572,132705,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-388281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-baltimore-drive","tag-la-mesa","tag-parking-tickets","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388281","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=388281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}