mclanea, your comment about parking tickets is sort of off-subject for this article, but I want to mention that I had a similar experience in downtown San Diego with an alleged 2-hour parking violation. The City fought me all the way to Superior Court, where a judge finally acknowledged that my GPS data trumped the City's weak evidence. It took a year to go through the entire arduous ticket appeal process, but in the end, the City refunded my fine plus court fees.
The police could hand out jaywalking tickets all day long at the intersection of Park Boulevard and University Avenue. Pedestrians frequently ignore traffic signals when hurrying to board their bus or when they get off the bus. They seem pretty reckless to me.
SOHO sued the city, claiming that the Jacobs plan violated municipal code 126.0504, which, as I understand its application to the plan, says that a parking lot is a "reasonable use" of the Plaza, and, as a result, the parking lot must remain. While Judge Timothy Taylor did not find fault with Jacobs' proposed bridge and underground parking garage, he agreed with SOHO regarding the "reasonable use" issue, killing the Jacobs plan.
I'd like to see cars removed from the Plaza, but I don't see how any plan gets around the city's municipal code. Can someone please explain how the Filner plan does not violate the city's municipal code?
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Pedestrians Targeted In San Diego Police Sweep
mclanea, your comment about parking tickets is sort of off-subject for this article, but I want to mention that I had a similar experience in downtown San Diego with an alleged 2-hour parking violation. The City fought me all the way to Superior Court, where a judge finally acknowledged that my GPS data trumped the City's weak evidence. It took a year to go through the entire arduous ticket appeal process, but in the end, the City refunded my fine plus court fees.
March 8, 2013 at 11:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Pedestrians Targeted In San Diego Police Sweep
The police could hand out jaywalking tickets all day long at the intersection of Park Boulevard and University Avenue. Pedestrians frequently ignore traffic signals when hurrying to board their bus or when they get off the bus. They seem pretty reckless to me.
March 7, 2013 at 8:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Filner Has New Plans For Plaza de Panama
SOHO sued the city, claiming that the Jacobs plan violated municipal code 126.0504, which, as I understand its application to the plan, says that a parking lot is a "reasonable use" of the Plaza, and, as a result, the parking lot must remain. While Judge Timothy Taylor did not find fault with Jacobs' proposed bridge and underground parking garage, he agreed with SOHO regarding the "reasonable use" issue, killing the Jacobs plan.
I'd like to see cars removed from the Plaza, but I don't see how any plan gets around the city's municipal code. Can someone please explain how the Filner plan does not violate the city's municipal code?
February 28, 2013 at 2:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Filner Has New Plans For Plaza de Panama
Doesn't Mayor Filner's plan violate the same city municipal code that the Jacobs plan did?
February 28, 2013 at 7:31 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )