Parking Management – San Diego

Officer Raspberry gets a lot of flack for being the issuer of citations and Glen must get a lot of negative attention for towing property — but they’re just doing their job. Now I don’t know her personally but I can tell you while it sucks to get a ticket, I am adult enough to know that I am at fault for 1) for not prioritizing my registration and carrying my temp registration with me and 2) for parking over 2 hours in a 1 hour zone.
I was there in time to witness my idiocy being cited but again, adult enough to recognize that I am at fault and was able to maintain. Because their job is undesirable I am sure they are jaded by the amount of crap people give them and the horrible feedback that egotistical faultless perpetrators try to shove their way — armed and ready to face an angry car owner I am sure is not a pleasurable experience. Working in customer service, I sympathize. It’s tough.
What people don’t recognize is that it’s their job, its a dangerous job, and its not pleasurable job to be yelled at for something they can’t control.
With that said, I was lucky enough to get there while they were citing and towing my ‘illegal’ car, by recognizing what I did wrong, able to swallow my pride and shove my ego to the side. Ofc. Raspberry was super sympathetic, helpful and comforting in my semi-​hysteric and panic yet calm state. Glen, the tow drive made sure that my car was safe, handled properly and even showed me a thing or two about my car I did not know about. He even told the tow lot that stored my car to take care of the car and myself which was super helpful when I was able to pick up my car the following day. They put it in the garage which was awesome! Thank you. I will be more careful. Don’t let your job get you down. I do appreciate what you guys do.

well yet again, i come to a point where i am thoroughly disgusted with our law enforcement agencies. this time parking enforcement. this is not about anything else other than revenue generation. We might as well drop off our money each day wit the nearest meter nazi. It would save me a lot of time, energy and stress over seeing one of those damned yellow ticket envelopes on my car. this round of ticketing has been four in the last two months. First one came from expired registration. Ok great that was true my plate did display expired tags. Hjowever, the dealer sticker displayed current registration. Yet somehow the officer failed to see it in my window, though it was clearly posted. funny how that works. the other three came in a ten day period from an officer named Mccade.
What a piece of lying shit. I was ticketed on two vehicles for being parked over 72 hours. False, i was nowhere near 72 hours. And the third was for wheel cramping which I was in violation of. however what a bulshit way to earn money for the city. tax people unjustly and unfairly. And even when it is a violation (albeit an antiquated statute where we have automatic transmissions with little chance of a car rolling down ahill)…Lighten the fuck up Parking nazis. for fucks sake next time, why dont you just demand my wallet, take as much as you want and leave me alone. that’s basically what you are doing
Fucking government

I want to say, i am truly grateful for the Parking Management of San Diego. Every time i go down town, I find a place to park, and not being an idiot, i put money in the meter and have never gotten a ticket. What a great system!!!

Worst form of gelatinous shit on earth. These pigs produce nothing. Paying to park on streets we already pay taxes on is illegal and highly immoral.
Not only does parking enforcement ruin business it undermines society. It is the weakest most cowardly form of revenue our society has to deal with.
The best way to shut these assholes down is to stop parking all together on city streets or even use paid lots, completely beating them at their own game. Over time they will be forced to lay off losers from their doughnut force of non productive losers. Which means less assholes in their lard-​ass tricycle lard-​mobiles that say «police» on them. If you haven’t figured it out, they are not cops, they are just almost that stupid.
I let everyone of these people know that they are worthless every time I see them, it’s not so much that they don’t already know they are stupid as they ticket the 90 year old lady picking up her medication, it’s just the gratification I get exercising my freedom of speech. Just know that everyone of these pieces of shit will be replaced by a camera just like the meters are being replaced by machines, that’s how much they are valued.
Lastly, another thing you must be aware of is that parking enforcement revenue is supposed to go toward fixing the city street, painting delapadated curbs, replacing sun-​bleached signs, brightening limit lines, making things nicer in our neighborhoods, so if we do end up parking, it’s not a ponzi-​scheme. If you see a curb that needs painting or a sign that is in need or is covered by a tree, CALL, CALL, CALL, EMAIL, EMAIL, EMAIL, because that is what it’s for. Get the names and badge numbers of idiots that harass people, write a formal complaint it goes on their record.

Officer Judy Raspberry ticketed me once for not cramping my wheels on a hill. Though it was surprising — I live on a cul de sac with a maximum of three street parking spaces, not what I’d normally consider super fertile ground for fines — it was a legit ticket. I didn’t write up a negative review about it.
This week however, the officer and parking enforcement outdid themselves. My neighbors on the very same cul de sac were towed and ticketed for parking in violation of posted signs that **don’t exist**, on a street where people have been parking — and getting ticketed for other violations — for at least a decade, probably a few decades.
No warnings. No «Sorry about our previous failure to enforce an unposted restriction, but we got a complaint and your parking habits need to change starting tomorrow.» Just jimmying into people’s doors to release their parking brakes and impound their cars.
Compare that conduct with the most prominent block of text on the city’s parking enforcement home page:
«Managing on-​street parking in a way that is both safe and FAIR [emphasis mine], protects our citizens and resources, encourages availability and access and ensures our customers are satisfied with the outstanding service we provide.»

Now I know we all hate getting parking tickets or having to challenge something with the city parking management, etc. It’s the nature of the beast and it sucks overall. But if you are going to have to suffer the consequences and pay for a ticket, I wish you would have your office to attend to somewhere relevantly close for people to go to. They are located in a building in between 2^nd and 3^rd on Broadway downtown and there is ZERO parking (if you can believe that) around the building, and not even a 15 – 30 mins zone in sight. You literally have to park in Horton Plaza and walk up to there (10−15mins), which is fine if you didn’t have to wait an additional 20 mins when you got there because of a line.
Now I don’t mind walking, however, when you only have a few mins to get some things taken care of, you don’t have time to wait for 45 mins overall to get it accomplished. My lunch is typically shot if I go here because it isn’t the staff that is inept, it’s the people that are frequenting the establishment.
I go regularly because I need parking cards. Now, I’m in and out in 5 mins flat if no one is in there, but let me remind you people. THEY HAVE HEARD IT BEFORE! Every excuse you come up with when you are on your way there, they have heard, so just get your proof of insurance, you license plate number or permit number and get your stuff together. They don’t have all day to argue with you about something you know won’t be fixed.

Yet another victim of Raspberry’s wasted life. $ 60 because my wheels weren’t turned — enough — to the curb to satisfy her. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest her arm pits.

Thank you Officer Raspberry for giving my car and 5 others trivial parking tickets on a strip of the street that only had 8 cars parked.
You’re very good at what you do!

I’d like to send a special shout out to «Officer» (title used loosely) Raspberry, America’s Finest parking enforcer. Ms. Raspberry is a proof positive testament that an insufferable personality salted with low-​wage embitterment can go far in the venture of issuing frivolous parking tickets.
Perhaps I have misunderstood the ironically named sourpuss. Frankly, Crabberry’s job is the epitome of suck. Meter maiding is an ostensibly Plan B occupation joining the ranks of sanitation technician and street sweeper. This is a situation where the cliché «it’s a dirty, thankless job, but somebody has to do it» fits to a bloody, morale-​killing tee. I understand this and I’d never intentionally make anyone’s job harder than it needed to be.
Still, there is no rational reason to assume an overtly combative demeanor when a person asks you a simple, vitriol-​free question, i.e. why are you writing me a ticket for violating a one-​hour parking sign when I’ve only been here for 45 minutes? The icing on the shit cake was your issuing a ticket after admitting you never marked my car, a telling indication that you essentially fail at failing. Pity gets you an extra star.
Sure, I’ll be out forty bucks, but this doesn’t change the fact that you’ll remain an angry, cud-​chewing, neck-​rolling, finger-​snapping meter maid. I’ll save the half hour of needless frustration I’d get filing a complaint with San Diego’s finest automated machines. Justice has already been served.

Visitors to SD beware… your visit to the gaslamp district will be riddled with a choice of on-​street parking, or over-​priced parking garages. Choose the onstreet parking with caution — there are no change machines, meters are priced in tiny increments so that by the time you stuff every coin you have available, you’ll only get 48 mins of parking. Go, get yourself a hastily downed lunch, suffer the heartburn, only to return on minute #49 to meet the meter man. No amount of pleading helped.
Why bother visiting?

Booooooo! I cannot think of a proper word to describe how this department is operated. Common sense is not allowed if it bears the Parking Management logo!

OK, if you are parking downtown SD and you come across a parking stop that doesn’t have a meter in front of it, DON’T assuming it is free parking. SD has gone to a paper meter slip system called «Park, Pay, Display.» (More like «Park, Display and Pray.») There will be a centrally located meter box in which you may place coins or credit cards into and print out a parking permit. Put the slip into your car for «display» part and make sure you are back before it expires. There are several reasons why SD is using this system, but it is what it is.
JB