Overview
- The City Council Rules Committee voted 3-2 to send Councilmember Raul Campillo’s proposal to a second committee hearing.
- The measure would write the city’s current practice of free shoreline parking into municipal code unless voters later change it.
- Existing meters and other paid parking programs elsewhere in the city would remain unaffected under the proposal.
- Council President pro tem Kent Lee and Councilmember Sean Elo Rivero opposed the advance, with Lee citing state beach-access protections.
- Campillo described the effort as a response to Balboa Park’s troubled paid-parking rollout, and his office would work with the city attorney and independent budget analyst on preliminary analyses if it clears the next step.