The City of San Diego has completed more than 3,500 neighborhood repairs since the City Council reallocated $1.8 million in parking meter revenue from community parking districts to the Transportation Department in late October. 

Over the past three months, the City has used that parking revenue to repair over 1,200 streetlights and patch nearly 2,300 potholes in the four community parking district areas – Downtown, Mid-City, Pacific Beach and Uptown. In addition, sidewalk repairs are underway in both Downtown and Uptown with more to follow. 

Since the late 1990s, the City has worked with nonprofit community organizations to manage the community parking district program. Under Council Policy 100-18, this program was established to help provide parking management solutions for areas impacted by high parking demand. 

The pause to the program came as the City sought to improve and modernize its parking management policies. In June of last year, the City Council approved a comprehensive package of parking reforms and, as part of those reforms, the City implemented changes to the program in an effort to improve efficiency and transparency. 

An internal review by the City’s Transportation Department last year identified ongoing issues with how funds have been managed and documented. In previous years, the community parking districts struggled to expend all of the available funding even as the backlog of maintenance and infrastructure needs in their communities continued to grow.  

When the City Council reallocated the funding to Transportation in an Oct. 27 vote, City crews began making repairs immediately across the four parking districts. 

To make requests for infrastructure repairs, both inside and outside of parking district areas, residents are encouraged to use Get it Done.