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Parking rates will increase mid-September from $1.25 to $1.75 an hour. The rate increase is part of the Port of San Diego’s public parking meter pilot program.
Port of SD to expand public parking meter changes
Decision made after the port hosted a public meeting on the topic.
By Ambrosia Brody
SAN DIEGO — The Board of Port Commissioners agreed to expand its pilot meter parking program to the North Embarcadero and Ruocco Park areas, affecting a total of 284 public parking meters.
The decision came on Aug. 12 after
the Port of San Diego hosted an infor- mational meeting on changes to the public parking meter pilot program, which will increase parking fees. At that meeting, approximately 10 people provided comments on the proposed changes.
The action follows a decision made
by the board in April, when they adopted an ordinance that established a parking meter pilot program in the parking lot walking distance from Tuna Harbor. Fees increased from $1.25 to $1.75.
The parking lot, which is located on
Port tidelands, is located off Harbor Drive at G Street, south of the USS MidwayMuseum in an area known as Tuna Harbor. Hourly parking rates increased from $1.25 per hour, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, to $1.75 per hour, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Sunday. The program will soon expand to
cover 177 public parking meters in the North Embarcadero and 107 public parking meters in the Ruocco Park area in San Diego. The meter rates will increase from $1.00 per hour at Ruocco Park and $1.25 in the North Embarcadero to $1.75. The purpose is to increase parking meter turnover, access to the bay and
public utilization, according to the port. According to the port, the pilot pro-
gram will provide staff with data on the 186 meters at Tuna Harbor that will assist with recommended future changes in the port’s other parking meter lots. The pilot program is also aligned with the city of San Diego’s multiple pilot programs that are cur- rently in process. According to the port, the tenants
were okay with Sunday enforcement and the majority were not opposed to the rate change. One speaker was in opposition to the change in hours based on their own business hours, explained Marguerite Elicone, market- ing and public relations representative with the port. “Everyone was interested in Smart
Meters and the ease of using credit cards versus just coins,” she said. “Several of our attraction tenants want all meter time limits to change to three hours from two hours.” Since the opening of the waterfront
park, the port’s public parking meters along North Harbor Drive between B Street and Grape Street and the Ruocco Park area have been highly impacted and turnover on Sundays is very low. The opening of the park, the populari- ty of The Headquarters retail and restaurant center, the development of a new hotel at Lane Field, and the con- struction of public improvements along the North Embarcadero have resulted in reduced parking availabili- ty. Based on this, Port District staff will recommend that the parking meter pilot program be expanded to these areas with the goal of improving meter turnover and public utilization, according to the port. The rate increase will go into effect mid-September 2014.
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