California needs money. Every city needs money. One way to get it is to change the parking laws, while few know about it. Then give tickets for breaking the law which is arbitrary and meant as a money making, not a safety matter.
“Since Jan. 1, the San Diego Police Department’s Parking Enforcement team has issued 4,200 tickets for vehicles not in compliance with California’s new daylighting law.
The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.
“It’s all about pedestrian safety,” Erin Longen, SDPD’s Parking Enforcement Supervisor, said. “So as you approach a crosswalk, just think of any little kid walking to school, you’re not going to be able to see them when a car is parked close to the crosswalk.”
SDPD’s Parking Enforcement team spent the first two months educating the public and giving out warnings.
“We handed out 1,500 warnings for two months, it was a little blue slip we would leave on cars we saw in violation,” Longen said.”
Millions of cars go through and park in San Diego in a month. So, giving out 1500 “warnings” is the scam. They make believe folks know about an irrational law. Note they are not telling us the public is safer via fewer accidents. These tickets are a desperate measure. In L.A. over $300 million worth of tickets are ignored. Wonde what the number is for San Diego?
4,200 tickets given out in San Diego in first two months of California’s daylighting law
by: Zara Barker, Fox5 San Diego, 4/30/25 https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/san-diego/4200-tickets-given-out-in-first-two-months-of-californias-daylighting-law/
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Since Jan. 1, the San Diego Police Department’s Parking Enforcement team has issued 4,200 tickets for vehicles not in compliance with California’s new daylighting law.
The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.
“It’s all about pedestrian safety,” Erin Longen, SDPD’s Parking Enforcement Supervisor, said. “So as you approach a crosswalk, just think of any little kid walking to school, you’re not going to be able to see them when a car is parked close to the crosswalk.”
SDPD’s Parking Enforcement team spent the first two months educating the public and giving out warnings.
“We handed out 1,500 warnings for two months, it was a little blue slip we would leave on cars we saw in violation,” Longen said. This helped get the word out ahead of the ticketing and enforcement, which began on March 1.
“We’ve written over 4,200 tickets, which sounds like a high number, but it’s less than 10% of the tickets were writing as an agency, and we are writing them both proactively and reactively, so people do use the Get It Done App to report violations in their neighborhood, so we respond to those as well as just in the community seeing what we see,” Longen said.
She said the parking enforcement team sees the most issues in areas where parking is already hard to come by.
Specifically, Normal Heights, North Park, Hillcrest, University Heights, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach and La Jolla.
The law applies to any crosswalk, even if it’s not a marked crosswalk with the white lines on the street, and even if the curb is not painted red, or if the curb is not painted red for the full 20 feet length.
“Just remember that some red zones were painted prior to this law, so some of them might only be 5 feet, but we have to give that 20-foot clearance,” she said.
A ticket for violating the new law costs $117, which is mandated by the state
San Diego’s goal is to increase city revenue. Solution: Paint the curbs within 20 feet of the cross walk red and post “No Parking in Red Zone” signs at the start of the red zone. Much fewer tickets but less revenue for the City!