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San Diego needs money. Meanwhile, San Diego teens are jumping off Sunset Cliffs, some being seriously injured, others having to be rescued. But most don’t.
So, one solution would be to post a San Diego Police patrol car at the cliffs for a week and ticket everyone about to jump or who have just jumped.
Maybe with the cash collected the city can re-open all those public restrooms in Mission Bay.
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Good idea. Another solution is to let the police issue citations for animal code violations again. The Humane Society Officers are worthless for this. Easily tens of thousand$ a month.
Agreed
SDPD should especially, respond when it’s a large powerful dogs off leash at a park or roaming streets. I can see waiting for SD Humane for a small 5-20 pound dog.
Our area has rotating US Postal Mail persons due to the number of loose dogs the new mail people transfer as soon as able. It took a year of daily calls before SD Humane started driving by and enforcing.
The SD Humane Society and SDPD were stating staffing shortages were too blame. A choice of responding to a fight for safety or a loose dog that hadnt bitten anybody.
But then SD Humane Society finally created the practice to drive home dogs without fines, to avoid the trip to overcrowded shelter, if it’s the 1st loose dog offense.
Then SD Humane Society created the dog & cat license tags with QR Codes so anybody can scan and contact the owners or drive dogs home.
But SD County Animal Control does not drive the dogs home for 1st loose dog offenses.
Frank J, Stop this obsession of ticketing dog owners. The Humane Society Officers are doing a terrific job. When the City was doing enforcement they acted like our current ICE jerks.
Totally do-able to keep a cop at Sunset Cliffs until school opens — it’s just a few more weeks —
to ticket every kid who is a jumper. What is the fine? Unauthorized parking in a handicapped zone’s cross-hatching, even with a legal blue placard, gets you a $450 ticket.
Cliff-jumping should be equivalent, at a minimum.
Also, I have to say, this is another indictment of the scourge that is social media.
Frank, this article is a great example of lost funding opportunities with fines.
Another topic that could generate alot of money is enforcing and increasing fines for illegal parking of Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles.
§86.0149 Parking of Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles in
Residential Districts.
§86.0137 Prohibition of Use of Streets for Storage, Service, or Sale of Vehicles or For Habitation
86.0137 Prohibition of Use of Streets for Storage, Service, or Sale of Vehicles or For Habitation
Section 35712 of the California Vehicle Code
Increasing fines 10x for illegally parking Heavy Duty Commercial vehicles in residential districts to atleast $1000 a day.
These violations are frequently occurring in low resource neighborhoods, on 2 lane streets near homes, that are a 1/2- mile from any store and none are parking in the two commercial districts only residential districts.
I’m not talking about unhoused RV owners parking, and violating Oversized vehicle code.
We have complaints of Auto Haulers loaded carrying 8-10 vehicles.parkimg 3-4 days.
Big Rigs, Double Trailers (uncovered) hauling gravel, dirt that spills onto streets, Semi- trailers with hazard stickers parking adjacint to Jamacha Open Space in Very High Fire Hazard Zone within 50 feet of homes.
The City of San Diego only charges $76.50, plus gives these truckers a warning, lets them park for 72 hours instead of enfocing no Heavy Duty Commercial vehicles over 10,000 pounds, 20 feet long, & 7 feet tall in residential areas/zones!
Other Cities and States do not give warnings and they charge daily fines of $600-$1000 for the 1st offense per day and fines increase for subsequent offenses.
Illegally Parking Commercial Vehicles ( not RVs)
High-Penalty Jurisdictions
San Francisco-
Philadelphia, PA: Charges a strict $1,000 fine for each offense, per day, for prohibited parking or maintaining of semi-trailers and truck tractors on residential properties or driveways.
Howard County, MD: Implemented a tiered enforcement system scaling up to a $1,000 maximum fine for illegally parked commercial vehicles in local neighborhoods.
New York City, NY: Routinely considers and pushes legislative bills (such as S6876) aiming to lock in flat $1,000 fines specifically for unattended semi-trailers left on city streets.
Jamacha, Neighborhood- alone could have easily generated atleast 200k in fines in just 2026! The majority of our 413 Acres are located in the Very High Fire Hazard Zone with hundreds of eucalyptus trees, dried tumble weeds, and unmaintained Mexican Fan Palms.
Jamacha residents have filed dozens of Get It Done complaints. The SDPD has been helpful, but doesn’t set the fines and needs No Oversized parking signage, No Heavy Duty Commercial signage, that I requested to help avoid the inappropriate use of 72 hr fines. As Heavy Duty commercial vehicles can never Stop, Park, unless actively loading or unloading. and City Street division denied.
I do support Long Haul & local Truckers and have several in my family. But they park in Truck Stops to avoid fines, and some drive an hour to do so. Most of the violators are Independant truck drivers and companies, likely non union. The Teamsters rep said their drivers know not to park in neighborhoods.
San Diego has several Truck Stops a mere 10-25 minutes away near the border from Otay Mesa – National City.
The City of Lemon Grove could also be creating funding by encouraging business owners to add a porta potty, amd rent out, all of the vacant parking lots on Broadway, ( former Rite Aid, GTM) and Lemon Grove Ave (former 99 Cent Store) to Truck Companies. The truckers could generate funding from eating, shopping, using laundromats etc…