Members of La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) discussed a parking plan that would add spaces to La Jolla village and, its creators said, possibly curb future intervention from the city. “Paid parking isn’t dead,” LJCPA trustee Dan Cortney said during the group’s April 2 meeting. LJCPA members introduced a “rainbow curb” plan that the report’s authors said would add 64 parking spaces around La Jolla village, mostly by eliminating valet and passenger zones. “This is step one of the parking management plan,” said Ed Ward, creator of the Rainbow Curbs Survey presented during the meeting and last year’s alternate parking plan that opposed the city of San Diego’s paid parking meter proposal for the village. “Let it be known now to any public servant: We will oppose meters to the end,” Ward said. Last year, La Jollans clashed over a plan to install parking meters throughout the village. But locals ultimately ended their clamoring when former San Diego City Councilman Scott Peters announced he was stalling the process by dispersing citywide parking boards including the La Jolla Community Parking Advisory Board that included members from local area councils. Ward said his plan focused on spaces companies were not using, abandoned drive-through spaces, unneeded commercial loading zones and some curbs that, Ward said, business owners illegally painted red. According to Ward’s plan, by reducing red curbs, eliminating some bus stops, eliminating passenger loading zones or changing curb times and adding diagonal spaces, among other options, more than 60 spaces could be salvaged. Though LJCPA trustees said they agreed with plans to stave paid parking, some said they were hesitant to endorse various facets of the plan. “We need to be careful on moving some bank drive-throughs,” LJCPA trustee Tim Lucas said. Ward said the village is overcrowded with myriad yellow and white passenger unloading spaces and areas posting conflicting signs. He called for trustees and locals to probe the permit process restaurants use while applying for the valet spots. “It’s obvious there’s a lot that needs to be changed,” Ward said. “The white curb for passenger valet unloading and loading is the same as yellow. Eliminate the yellow and make them the same.” “A boss of mine once said, ‘Get rid of everything and then bring it back,’” LJCPA President Joe LaCava said. Trustees did not vote on the parking plan during the April meeting. “There’s a lot of one hand not knowing what the other hand was doing,” LJCPA trustee Darcy Ashley said. “It could [end up] like hopscotch where every other business has a passenger loading zone.” “The issue is that we’re going to get La Jolla to agree on something,” LaCava said. “The issue of how do valet permits get issued and paid for — that issue needs to be addressed,” Ward said. For more information about LJCPA, or to view the rainbow curb survey, visit www.lajollacpa.org.