SAN DIEGO – The Pacific Beach Community Parking District and its governing board will soon be gone, but Garnet Avenue parking meters are here to stay.
That was the news revealed at the Pacific Beach Town Council’s Sept. 17 monthly meeting about the city’s latest cost-cutting move to pare down its projected $258 million budget deficit for FY 2025-26.
If approved by the San Diego City Council, the move will redirect approximately $1.8 million in parking meter revenue to city-managed infrastructure projects like sidewalk and streetlight repairs.
Reacting to the proposed elimination of the community parking district in the beach community, Sunny Lee, executive director of Discover PB, the community’s business improvement district, said: “The city’s decision to eliminate community parking di