Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
On Tuesday (4/23), Santa Barbara’s City Council meeting will vote on whether the Funk Zone should have metered parking.
Santa Barbara released their Funk Zone Access and Parking Assessment Study which recommends strategic actions to improve access and optimize the use of parking resources.
According to the study, it found that “while the existing parking supply is sufficient, utilization is unbalanced. The most convenient parking is free, and often congested, while parking that is farther away requires payment. In addition to prioritizing parking needs, local stakeholders want to create a safe and inviting neighborhood that retains its funky character and encourages use of alternative transportation.”
The study recommends action items such as metered parking, removing illegal signage of public parking for private parking, extend nighttime parking hours, add employee parking permits and new employee parking spaces, add a downtown shuttle stop, add pickup/dropoff zones for ride sharing, and more. The council’s agenda report can be found here.
Do you think parking in the Funk Zone should be metered? Vote in our poll below:
Past Articles
- July 13, 2018 – Funk Zone Parking Workshop Recap
- April 23, 2019 – Op Ed: Funk Zone Parking Changes
I have one for you. Today the parking enforcers wrote multiple tickets on Salsipuedes Street. One of them told me that if a vehicle is chalked on the tire, it necessary to move the vehicle to another block in order to not get a ticket. Moving it to a nearby space will get you a $96. 00 ticket. Is this a new regulation? You have been warned.
Chalking car tires to enforce parking rules is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Court Rules Chalking Tires for Parking Enforcement is …
http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-04-23/court-rules-chalking-tires-for-parking-enforc….
Don’t mean to wet your Cheerios, but that ruling only applies to the Federal Court District 6 which covers the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The rest of have to wait for the Appellate ruling.
God, doesn’t the City Council have anything better to do? They seem to not be happy unless they’r doing something guaranteed to piss people off.
That’s the charm of local politics, REX. Parking freedoms while restricting what your neighbour can do are what the local denizens really care about… oh, and shipping the homeless to concentration offshore camps.
Err… I mean offshore concentration camps.
Poll Doesn’t Tell the Real Story. Check out the article below:
https://www.edhat.com/news/funk-zone-changes
Next will be the Waterfront Department raising the parking fees, the hourly ones and the annual pass that is so popular with the funk zone employees. One of the arguments will be that the city has raised the cost of parking so the waterfront lots should keep pace. Just watch….
In my 50 years of licensed driving, I only ever received two parking citations. The first was when I was in my late teens and I had parked in Ventura and didn’t notice the parking meter. Surprise. (We never had meters in my hometown of SB.) 2nd ticket was in Westwood, when I was in my early 20s. My friends and I got back to our car to see we still had a few minutes left on the meter, but there was the citation, slipped under the windshield wiper. Parking meters are ugly and odious.
Um, they aren’t free? At least, the ones along the waterfront aren’t.
If you don’t like it don’t read it.
Moving is moving, I can’t believe there is a distance associated with it. Even one space over should be enough. Definitely not anything in the ordinances that I can find about this.
I parked my car in the funk zone for free all day to catch the train when the 101 was closed after the debris flow. That was probably a big pain for the merchants in the area as a lot of people were doing it. The meters would have cut down on that action.
it started there and is already in the california system working its way through. it’s a domino effect….
they have also stated that use surveillance equipment is just the same as marking a tired. 🙂 this makes me happy. i receive unwarranted tickets for parking in front of my home. even with a parking sticker! They constantly harass us. Juanita has torn up countless tickets because her goon squad likes to mess with locals. we live and work here…go after tourists and leave us alone!
What’s wrong with 75 or 90-minute parking like other business area’s of this city? Parking meters are ugly.
With sea level rise, the Funk Zone patrons will be needing boats and docks.
How about you quit posting everything 4 or 5 times.
Maybe because most people would rather park in front or around the corner for free, rather than pay and have to walk 4 or 5 blocks.
NOTREALLYDAVE. Nothing new about this, Dave. I think it was back in the 70s that my then 50-year-old Mother saw a chalk mark on her tire on Cota St. She proceeded to move her vehicle up to another space and got an even heftier citation. She was pretty bent out of shape about it, but I don’t believe she ever argued it in court.