New Parking Spaces for Hillcrest \u2013 Finally<\/p>\n
Por Leslie Wolf Branscomb<\/p>\n
Hillcrest needs more places to park, and finally some new spaces will be created.<\/p>\n
Ground was broken Sept. 28 in the asphalt median that divides Normal Street in the first block north of University Avenue. The project will redesign the median between University and Blaine Avenue to create 15 diagonal parking spaces with two-hour meters, plus two handicapped parking spaces. The newly-constructed median should be more attractive than the current asphalt divider, with landscaping and irrigation. It is to be completed in December.<\/p>\n
Conveniently, the spaces are near to many of Hillcrest\u2019s restaurants, shops and nightclubs. Having parking meters should encourage turnover, which would be helpful to the businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s a good news day. We are adding additional parking spaces right at a point where it is so necessary,\u201d said San Diego City Councilman Todd Gloria at a press conference announcing the project. \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting a while for this, but anything that\u2019s worth doing usually takes a bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The median parking project has been in the works for at least seven years. It will cost $293,250, with more than half the money — $149,000 — coming from the Uptown Partnership, which oversees parking in the Uptown area. \u201cThe money came from the community, basically,\u201d said Uptown Partnership board president Cindy Lehman. The partnership\u2019s share was taken from parking meter revenues, 45 percent of which are to be reinvested in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the need is broader than this,\u201d Gloria acknowledged. \u201cThis is just the first of many projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not long ago, Gloria helped obtain the Hillcrest Post Office parking lot for use after-hours. Patrons pay to park there in the evenings, and the money is used for the upkeep of the post office parking lot and property.<\/p>\n
Gloria is working now on a similar arrangement with the Department of Motor Vehicles, which has a large lot on Normal Street that sits unused after business hours.<\/p>\n
Other possible targets, Gloria said, are AT&T, which has a lot across from its main facility on Robinson Avenue, and the long-shuttered Pernicano\u2019s restaurant on Sixth Avenue, which has a chain-link fence around its unused parking lot. \u201cWe need to keep pushing,\u201d Gloria said. \u201cFolks may not be there yet, but that doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m going to quit asking. We have to explore the amenities that are here.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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