10 San Diego Uptown News | June 25-July 8, 2010 FROM PAGE 7
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your establishment for the whole eight hours and there won’t be parking for your customers.
BALTIC: I would say come to south Bankers Hill where every parking space from seven in the morning til 5:15 in the evening is packed solid all day long with one car – there’s no turnover. Meters are a tool that neighborhoods can use to optimize or help create turnover and manage the parking supply.
SCHULTZ: And in terms of managing one of the things we’re looking forward to with eager anticipation would be the opportunity to do more management. The mayor’s office has put forward a meter plan that would allow for adjusting rates and meter times as they’ve done in some pilot areas downtown. And what they have found, for example, is that dropping meter rates to 50 cents an hour in some areas and letting people park there for as many as nine hours at a time increased the usage so much that even at the lower rate they were collecting more money than they used to get from those meters. This is why we want to talk about being able to provide incentives for people to park at a lower rate a little farther away from the ideal destination and, if they’re so inclined, save a little money.
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older, and sadly, there will be a day when the sisters are not there physically,” Braunworth said. “We need to make sure the sisters’ spirit is alive. We’ve done that through how we hire our employees, how we’ve built our facility, the beautiful chapel that was funded philanthropically. Everyone, if they choose, can be touched by the mission.” Hospital volunteer Silva was
born at Scripps Mercy Hospital in 1948. Her mother was born there in 1921. All three of her children were born there, as was her granddaughter in November 2009. To her, the hospital is not an institution: It’s home. “This is the only hospital to
serve the downtown community,
Q: DOESN’T THAT ALSO MEAN THEY WOULD PAY MORE TO PARK CLOSER?
RAST: No, let’s make this absolutely clear. None of us are at all proposing to increase parking rates anywhere. We will not be raising rates.
Q: YOU ARE PROPOSING TO USE $4 MILLION IN RESERVE FUNDS FOR PROJECTS. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?
BALTIC: In Bankers Hill/Park West, we have crosswalks, we have pedestrian pop-outs. We have angled parking. Increased supply of parking for not just cars – bicycles, motorcycles.
Q: DO YOU HAVE A PROJECTED DATE FOR THESE PROJECTS?
SCHULTZ: The city needs to approve our contract in September before anything can get started. We’re currently under an extension of our FY10 contract through the end of September. We’re continuing to work on the projects that we have in that budget but the new projects won’t be initiated until we have a new contract.
Q: IS THERE ANY TANGIBLE ITEM YOU CAN TELL PEOPLE TO EXPECT SOON?
BALTIC: We hope that in a very short order that we can get a
the Uptown community, through the generations,” she said. “The nuns and their care and love and helping our family … We’ll never be able to say thank you enough. There’s a chapel there … I feel next to God. It’s a special place.”
Silva is optimistic about
Scripps Mercy Hospital’s future. “I’m excited about the next 120 years and the next generations that will be involved there,” she said. Scripps Mercy Hospital is hosting a community event on July 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the front lawn of the Hillcrest campus. Free food, music, health screenings, games for kids and gifts will be part of the event. For more information, go to scripps. org. Scripps Mercy Hospital is located at 4077 Fifth Ave.u
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“If Five Points had been its own little parking district … they couldn’t have done the project that’s happening right down there now,” said Ben Baltic, an Uptown Partnership board member. (Christy Scannell/SDUN)
validation program going in Hillcrest. That’s a top priority.
Q: HOW WOULD THAT WORK?
BALTIC: The idea is that if you have metered parking on-street, which is pay, and then you have free parking in an underutilized or distant garage or parking lot, people will go fill those first, leaving the neighborhood less congested and more available parking for those who want to pay it. We hope [the program will be in place quickly] because we don’t have to build anything – it’s just utilization or management of the asset.
Q: WHERE WOULD THIS VALIDATED PARKING BE?
SCHULTZ: For example, Village Hillcrest. Based on just our casual surveys it has a lot of underused parking pretty much any time of the day or night.
Q: BUT WOULDN’T THE BUSINESSES NEED TO PAY TO PROVIDE THE VALIDATION?
SCHULTZ: And that’s potentially where we come in to help them subsidize the cost.
Q: IF YOU COULD BROADCAST ONE MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT UPTOWN PARTNERSHIP, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
BALTIC: We’re pushing the board to be more accountable and more responsive and more results oriented. The whole thing in the community is “Where’s the beef?” Well, we’ve got the beef. Last year it was 14 projects; this year it’s 31 projects. We want to put these things out there as fast as we can.
RAST: One of the things that I’ve been saying to everybody
is you’re going to see the board at your neighborhood meetings. You’re going to get to know us. We want to encourage when the community is upset to come to us and we’ll deal with it.
BALTIC: And as far as the grand jury report being critical of the Partnership, this is the same grand jury that thought it would be a good idea to privatize libraries. Seriously. The community rejected that idea. I think the Partnership as an entity is a valuable asset for the community. I know City Hall has their budget problems but the community should value this asset because that’s what it is.u
In our next issue on newsstands July 9, San Diego Uptown News will continue its report on Uptown parking, including comments and analysis from community and political leaders.
In 1964, a new 11-story building was being constructed in front of the old hospital at Scripps Mercy Hospital’s current site. It opened in 1966. (Courtesy Scripps Mercy Hospital)
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