Press Coverage

La Jolla Light

• Controversial parking move is rescinded by Maria Connor
  (May 21, 2008)
• Our View: Toward a healthier parking debate, Editorial
  (April 23, 2008)
• Parking Pugilistics and No on paid parking, Letters To The Editor by Michael DeClouet and John A. Berol
  (April 23, 2008)
• Promote La Jolla submits parking plan to city, by Maria Connor and Dave Schwab
  (April 16, 2008)
   

  An ad hoc citizen group, No Paid Parking, in a statement on their Web site reacting to PLJ board's action, said, "Many have long suspected that Promote La Jolla would vote to send the Pilot Plan to the City Council, without any changes, adjustments or modifications. Most importantly, the prediction was that the 'Pilot Plan,' calling for paid on-street parking throughout La Jolla, would not be altered due to public comment. This is exactly what happened!"

• Group opposed to paid on-street parking completes business survey, by Dave Schwab
  (March 6, 2008)
• In random interviews, local mostly negative on parking meters, by Cyril Jones-Kellet
  (March 6, 2008)
• Letter To The Editor by Nancy Warwick
  (March 6, 2008)
• Parking board chair steps down amid controversy, by Travis Hunter
  (December 5, 2007)
• Too many questions remain for pilot parking program, Editorial
  (November 19, 2007)
• Parking board considers changes to plan, by Travis Hunter
  (November 19, 2007)
• Too many questions remain for pilot parking program, Editorial
  (November 7, 2007)
• 'Free La Jolla' group hosts rally, rails against paid on-street parking by Dave Schwab
  (November 7, 2007)
• Fear and parking in La Jolla by Travis Hunter
  (November 7, 2007)
• Parking debate's cast of characters by Travis Hunter
  (November 7, 2007)
• No matter what we say, they do what they want, Guest Editorial by Michael DeClouet
  (July 3, 2007)
• Expensive parking does not promote business, Guest Editorial by Glen Rasmussen
  (October 9, 2007)

La Jolla Village News

• PLJ files third appeal by Alyssa Ramos
  (May 08, 2008)
• Promote La Jolla promotes paid parking by Alyssa Ramos
  (April 18, 2008)
• Shores Assoc. affirms anti-paid parking and Reinstate the community plan Letters To The Editor by Jim Heaton and Betty Hosie
  (April 18, 2008)
• Peters pulls emergency brake on parking board by Alyssa Ramos
  (April 12, 2008)
• Where is the parking problem? Letter to the Editor by Keith N. Kelman
  (April 12, 2008)
• Peters will pull the meters by Alyssa Ramos
  (April 04, 2008)
• City Attorney to investigate La Jolla parking board by Alyssa Ramos
  (March 20, 2008)
• Judge upholds PLJ board positions for Collins, Warwick by Alyssa Ramos
  (March 06, 2008)
• Citizens shine a light and Proposed solution to La Jolla parking dilemma Letters to the Editor by John Berol and Richard Wolf
  (March 06, 2008)
• Parking Advisory Board tries to hammer out conflict code by Alyssa Ramos
  (February 15, 2008)
• Judge rules organization must seat challengers by Alyssa Ramos
  (February 09, 2008)
• Parking plan raises unanswered questions by Alyssa Ramos
  (November 8, 2007)
• Paid Parking Uprising by Alyssa Ramos
  (November 2, 2007)
• Parking: Is the solution worse than the problem?, Guest Commentary by Darcy Ashley
  (August 23, 2007)
• La Jolla Council decries pilot parking plan, Letters to the Editor opposing paid on-street parking in La Jolla by Anne Cleveland (President, La Jolla Town Council), Andrea Dahlberg, David Little, Barbara Levy, and EJ Brandreth
  (October 26, 2007)
• Cove Swim Club against parking meters Letter to the Editor by Bob West, President, La Jolla Cove Swim Club
  (October 18, 2007)

The San Diego Union Tribune

• Parking board volunteers must now file disclosures
  (June 7, 2008)
• Conflict alleged on parking panel By Helen Gao
  (April 14, 2008)
• Needless rancor - Shelve the La Jolla parking meter plan Editorial
  (March 22, 2008)
• La Jolla board delays decision on parking meters By Helen Gao
  (March 19, 2008)
• Parking fees being considered by Helen Gao
  (February 18, 2008)
   

  It's not just La Jolla that's considering charging for street parking. A nascent debate is brewing in Pacific Beach over whether to install meters to increase turnover in parking spaces near the surf and raise money for public improvement projects.

• La Jolla advisory board to discuss paid street parking by Chet Barfield
  (November 16, 2007)
• Debate over La Jolla parking fees closed due to overcrowding by Chet Barfield
  (November 14, 2007)
• Paid parking at the beach a step closer to reality by Chet Barfield
  (September 20, 2007)

KOGO Radio Station

• Roger Hedgecock Podcast with Martin Mosier, the La Jolla Community Parking District Advisory Board Chairman, along with members of the public calling in. Martin Mosier talked the Advisory Board's "party line", and a skeptical Roger Hedgecock and callers help expose a few of the nasty "features" of the Board's "Plan" for paid on-street parking in La Jolla. [MP3]
  (March 20, 2008)

KPBS Radio Station

• Report by KPBS reporter Alison St John telling how "La Jolla residents came out in force to protest a plan that would have charged people for on-street parking in their commercial district. A last minute intervention by city attorney, Mike Aguirre, prevented the Parking Advisory Board from reaching a decision."
  (March 20, 2008)
• Year-old Tom Fudge Radio Show with Donald Shoup, Martin Mosier, Donna Frye, and members of the public talking about paid on-street parking in La Jolla.  more...
  
   
  

  The La Jolla Community Parking District Advisory Board's designated "expert" Donald ("Anti-Free Parking") Shoup of course says paid on-street parking is needed in La Jolla to move vehicles into the existing mostly-empty parking garages...owned by one (or more?) appointees to the Advisory Board.

  [Without disclosure of financial interests, it is difficult to tell who (if anyone) on the Board would benefit from Shoup's advice. Unfortunately, the Board, and now the City Council, is resisting attempts to make public any conflict of interest by Board members.]

  Martin Mosier, the current Parking District Advisory Board Chairman seems to characterize the La Jolla business community as largely in support of paid on-street parking (i.e., "quite a few positive responses" to the parking plan and "some negative responses").

  [A better "characterization", based on an actual survey of all the businesses in La Jolla, is 90% opposed.]

  Donna Frye spoke against paid on-street parking as a "solution" and about the City policies and politics that have created the perceived "problem" in the first place.

  (March 15, 2007)

The Guardian (UCSD)

• Downtown La Jolla Looking at Plausible Parking Makeover by Christina Buquid
  (March 13, 2008)

Beach & Bay Press

• Parking District hears plan for paid parking in Pacific Beach by Shannon Mulhall
  (January 17, 2008)
   

  Beachgoers could be paying as much as $3 per hour to park near the beach and some residents could also be paying up to $10 per month to park in front of their homes if the Pacific Beach Community Parking District (PBCPD) votes to adopt the suggestions of Walker Parking Consultants.

Los Angeles Times

• Beverly Hills adds more free parking time by Tami Abdollah
  (November 24, 2007)
   

  A great story about why Beverly Hills is adding free parking because its Mayor realized that business has been going elsewhere, with customers skipping "tourist-laden streets and pricey parking garages."

Aspen Times Weekly

• How about another 75 of these? by Carolyn Sackariason
  (October 6, 2007)
• Expansion of paid parking makes Aspen more exclusive An Aspen Times Editorial
  (September 12, 2007)

Wall Street Journal

• A Rocky Mountain High-End Problem by Kris Hudson
  (September 27, 2007)
   

  This WSJ article shows how the character of Aspen Colorado has changed for the worse. This happened after paid on-street parking was instituted there in January 1995. As a result resident-friendly "ordinary business" were eventually replaced by 20+ high-end jewelry stores catering exclusively to tourists.

  Promote La Jolla's "parking plan" points to the "notable success" of Aspen Colorado's parking program (see page 4 of PLJ's document). This article, and other Aspen Times articles, paint a very different picture.