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Hello, Navajo and College Area!
Should residential permit parking come to the Navajo area?
That was the discussion at the July 9 Navajo Planning Group meeting following a presentation from RideSD, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve mass transit options for San Diegans.
Contributor Thomas Murphy was at the meeting and reported on the planning group’s reaction to RideSD’s presentation.
The reps from RideSD are pushing a neighborhood-driven plan where the community chooses its own rules — from how many permits each household gets, to how visitors and renters are handled — with the city simply administering whatever locals approve.
RideSD pointed to Barrio Logan’s permit district near Petco Park as proof that permits can protect neighborhoods from outside parking pressure.
Of course, parking in Barrio Logan or near Petco is far from the sight on my San Carlos street. My neighbors may feel differently, considering I own a 1982 VW campervan — a truck that is solely used for towing a camping trailer — and daily drivers for myself and my wife (oops).
But while parking along my street is prevalent, areas in Del Cerro, Allied Gardens and Grantville are much different. Those parking issues, especially in Grantville, where development after development is popping up, may eventually warrant a parking permit program.
You can add Del Cerro into that conversation when, or maybe if, the 6-story housing project is built on Del Cerro Boulevard (the good folks at Times of San Diego are looking into the status of that project as I type).
For those residents, what would a permit parking system look like?
Planning group members wondered the same, according to Murphy.
Would homeowners get first choice? Would the city continue to allow large-scale developments to be built without parking?
As the city and the region look to add much-needed housing, questions over parking will only grow and that includes my neighborhood. On the bright side, for me and my neighbors, it may mean the time is coming to part with the old diesel Westfalia…if it starts when I need it to.
Dorian Hargrove
Mission Times newsletter host
Navajo, College Area story spotlight
Permit options pitched to planning group amid housing growth and parking concerns
By Thomas Murphy • Times of San Diego
Residents say vehicles from new developments are overflowing onto nearby streets, intensifying competition for limited parking spaces.
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