In the past 10 years, the city of San Diego has handed out more than 5 million parking citations, which brought in nearly $300 million to the city’s general fund,
Parking tickets are a fixture of life in San Diego, and most San Diegans have parking ticket stories of their own. Driving back and forth to find an open spot, forgetting to drop an extra quarter in the meter, or scoring a spot only to find it was a street-sweeping day.
Cars in College Area collected a total of $330,000 in residential permit tickets on just Lindo Paseo and Mary Lane. But for visitors, it can be confusing. KPBS recently went to Mission Beach and met a family from Ohio who weren’t clear on the parking rules. The family parked their van at an unpainted curb on Mission Boulevard assuming it was good for the entire day, and said the signs were confusing.
Last year, the city made widespread changes to street sweeping schedules, reducing the frequency of street sweeping for some areas and increasing it in others, such as Clairemont, University City, and Mira Mesa, places that received more debris. While Mission Beach and other beachside areas of San Diego might see more street sweeping tickets, in downtown San Diego, parking tickets have always been a fixture of the streets.
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