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| Free parking at Linda Mar Beach is the old days |
Daily Parking Fees. The daily fee to park one vehicle in the Parking Lots is $3.00 for a period of less than 4 hours and $6.00 for a period of more than 4 hours (or all day). This fee is for one motor vehicle and is non-transferable. This fee authorizes vehicle parking during paid parking hours on the calendar day (or the remaining portion thereof) that the fee is paid. Once purchased, the daily permit must be placed face up on the dashboard of the vehicle so that it is viewable at all times by an enforcement officials.
Beach Parking Paid Hours of Operation. Hours for paid parking will be from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M each day. Parking of a vehicle in the Parking Lots without clear exterior display of a valid receipt or valid pass for said vehicle will constitute an offense for which a parking citation may be issued to the registered owner of said vehicle.
Annual Parking Pass. To Purchase a Pass click here.
32 comments:
Has the city/county/state hired the rangers yet?
The security in Linda Mar Shopping Center will be busy chasing out the people who try to park in the Parking lot and walk to the beach.
I hope Pedro Point Shopping Center hires security also.
About time the deadbeat surfers pay for something.
http://ocparks.com/about/fees/pass
"deadbeat surfers" - prejudiced much? Some of those surfers are probably more successful than you.
3:10
dream on
Careful with your broadbrush remarks.
I'm a deadbeat surfer and I'm a freakin' taxpaying, homeowning, hardworking, millionaire.
well good, then don't bitch about paying the parking fee.
We'll see. I have a feeling that most surfers aren't millionaires and these pennyless, stoner vagabonds will be parking all over Linda Mar.
"pennyless, stoner vagabonds" - give it a rest. Did a surfer step on your toe or what? I know lots of surfers. They are middle class working people or retired. They own their homes. I don't know their substance use habits but none of the ones I know would drink alcohol and go surfing. Their goal is to ride waves, not get trashed and drown.
Strictly for what it's worth...@9 this morning, 11 adults in 3 cars, decide to go out to breakfast in Pacifica. 8 are from out of state and want to walk on the beach before breakfast at the SurfSpot which opens for brunch at 11 or 1130. Back and forth conversation leads to the paid parking at LMBeach. Screw it! We skip the beach and end up at Boulevard Restaurant in DC. All 11 had a great breakfast. No beach. When last seen, the out-of-towners were on their way to do a little shopping at Westlake before gassing up and heading East. I don't know, with this paid parking might we be discouraging people who want to do more than just visit the beach? You know, visitors who might spend more than the parking fee in Pacifica? Time will tell, although I expect to hear this program is the crown jewel.
Pacifica, knows how to chase badly needed $$ away.
How much did you drop at Blvd. Cafe?
My husband and I wanted to go to HIGH TIDES for breakfast this morning around 10 am. Drove around the parking lot three times and no open spots! Turned around and went to Nick's. Saw the beach lot was also full so maybe just because it was a beautiful morning and then 65 degrees everyone was out. I am for beach parking because I think people who enjoy are amenities should do more than leave all their trash behind. They bring in their own food, enjoy our beach and leave their mess for Pacificans to clean up. If you are local and go to the beach every Saturday and Sunday, a $50 a year permit is 50 cents a day. Come on, that is reasonable.
Apparently the individuals that went to Daly City and ate at a restaurant surrounded by cement weren't that interested in the beach or being outside on a lovely morning. Free parking remains at Rockaway Beach and Sharp Park.
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For years the outcry has been about the wasted opportunity of free parking at the beach. It took a lot of hard work to receive approval from the Coastal Commission -- resulting in a very reasonable charge of $3 hours for up to four hours and $6 for all day. Change always takes a little time to get use to.
Beach parking is 25 years too late.
The only city on the West Coast that is a beach town, that doesn't take advantage of being a beach town.
Way to go Pacifica.
3:37
In case you didn't notice, no place to eat at Sharp Park Beach.
Chit Chat, Sharp Park Golf Course, Pacifica Cafe, Raymond's, Pacifica Thai, Sonny's, El Toro Loco, yada yada yada
How about toll gates on 1, 35, Sharp Park Road, 92, 84 and Alpine Road?
This way you can charge all non-residents for enjoyment of beautiful nature. And will also cut down the traffic and pollution.
And use the toll funds towards restoration of beaches and wild life protection.
Its green, ecologically sound and progressive.
6:02
As I said.
No place
148 The check was $200 including tip. Then they hit TJ's and Walgreens for fruit and misc stuff, gassed up two SUVs and away they went. We didn't even get their hotel dollars because four stayed with us and the rest at Coastanoa near Pescadero--they loved that place. The four that stayed with us did take bikes to LMBeach a few days ago and liked it and wanted the others to enjoy it before they left. All of us also had lunch at Nick's this past week. They liked the food but said the place looked very run down. The rest of their time and money was spent in SF, Monterey and Sonoma.
Oh well, as we learned in the lecture @337, they must not have been our kind of people. I like them a lot, but, I mean, really, they actually ate breakfast and shopped in Westlake surrounded by all that concrete. Spent freely and thoroughly enjoyed their choice! The heathens! We'll have none of that in this town.
I can make up a similar story about a bunch of people who came and spent tons of money and love the fact that there was plenty of reasonably-priced beach parking available, if that makes you feel better, 11:50.
If the city was smart they would put paid parking in Rockaway(both sides) and Sharp Park Beach.
About time for the city to start making money off the tourists.
11:50 sounded like a made-up story to me, too.
813 Sure, if it makes you feel better, you go right ahead. This was not an assault on paid parking so withdraw your fangs. As said at the start, I shared my Sunday morning window on paid parking and visitor spending "for what it was worth", ie, for your consideration, to think about. The role of unintended consequences and all that. Surely you see there are lots of factors that can effect whether or not visitors spend money in Pacifica. Lots of variables, from the time a certain café opens to more restaurants to choose from to the weather...and any combination of those and other factors. And, yes, sometimes it's going to be paid parking. A fluke or something more significant? How should I know? But on the fickle turn of a conversation about breakfast, this time Pacifica lost out on several hundred visitor dollars. No need to go into a municipal twitch over that. Hey, let's validate. Just kidding. Kidding, you know?
Yep I agree we should charge for parking at Sharp Park too. Too many tourists come here, spend no money, then leave their trash behind.
Also the other lots down in Linda Mar should start to charge for parking unless you bought something and get a validation.
3:37
The California Department of State Parks was in charge of the fee to park at Linda Mar Beach.
Obviously, you never read the documents.
I assume Hutch is talking about merchants charging for parking at the Pedro Point Center at least; possibly at Linda Mar Center as well?
I think that's a pretty good idea if the intent is to put another nail in the coffin of Pacifica retail. Yes, many people would feed the meter I suppose; others would just do their shopping on the way home from work outside Pacifica.
After the meters are in, we can implement paid residential parking permits for Pedro Point and the front of Linda Mar and really rake in the big bucks, although enforcement will probably take all that money, if not even more.
Validating parking at the beach was a joke, ok? Paid parking to shop in Pacifica and having stores validate parking has got to be a joke, too. Fee frenzy? Anti-business. Let's grab a few bucks from the parking at LMB to cover some mntnce and such and before they get away to spend it elsewhere, but fees and more taxes can slow growth and are no substitute for an economy based on goods and services. We should know this in Pacifica.
Parking lots routinely offer validation for free parking if you buy something at a merchant. It's done all over the Peninsula. Not meters. Not saying it would work here but just something to look into as a way to keep beach goers from parking free at Linda Mar Shopping Ctr or Pedro Point. The other alternative is to ticket people and have them towed. At any rate that's up to the individual property owners.
The shopping center probably has a towing company all lined up. In no time at all the beachgoers will have all the free safe zones scoped out or they'll pay for the convenience of a spot at the beach. Huge empty SamTrans lot at LM every weekend just waiting.
6:57
The city is already in advanced talks about putting the poop pit on the Caltrans lot in Linda Mar. One problem, no one at city hall never bothered to ask Caltrans if they wanted to sell the site.
Pacifica=kings of doing things ass backwards.
Oh I'm sure Caltrans wants to do back flips for Pacifica and its shit.
I grew up in San Francisco's Sunset way back when the meat packing plants were located in the Bayview. Every Fall, we'd get those strong easterly winds that would blow the stench from the packing plants across town all the way to the beach. The proposed sewer pit is just a few degrees east of Linda Mar beach which gets the same easterly/northeasterly winds every Fall as San Francisco. Expect the possibility of an odoriferous beach experience any time the overflow pit has a slight hiccup.
Duh. This is Pacifica where we'd rather shit on prime real estate than run the risk it might be developed. It worked in the quarry.
If you like the way LM Shopping Center looks and want to go through eternity with it just that way, you'll be happy to know that the City of Pacifica is about to guarantee that no one will ever make any improvements there or in lower Linda Mar for that matter. Poop poop di doo! Yes, that prime real estate will be wasted, forgive the pun, by the same mindset that ruined the quarry, gave away Mori Point, Sweeney Ridge, etc. The faces change on council, but I swear these fools are sharing a brain with those who shall remain nameless.
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