Pacifica Parking and Towel Changing

Pretty sure they'ed rather I use a towel when changing than not...
Also, there's just no way that they'll be able to put fees into that car park, and not into the community center park.

This is possibly an attempt to keep the beach open, what with many others being in jeopardy of closing down because of the States oversights on frivolous spending for other senseless things?

There are several Sonoma Coast beaches considering the same. Two specific spots popular for surf has years ago already put up a toll booths operated during certain months, and when not staffed by Park Rangers, there is a drop/honesty box during the off seasons.

Be thankful we don't live in So Cal where parking meters are in abundance along the PCH.

Maybe an 'Occupy Pacifica' is in order ;-)

+1 @bombs for towel comment. And why not five bucks? Six sounds like the City's "gateway drug" to ten bucks in no time flat.

now everyone is going to rape the little shopping center on the ###### for parking. money will be made but i dont think people will put up with it.

I wouldn't mind paying $50 a year if they'd clean up the water (e.g. no more releasing rivers of diarrhea into the water from the pump house)

Ah, the Towel Ordinance. Nick Gust (of Nick's Restaurant at Rockaway) got sick of having his customers look at our hairy asses while they were eating their overpriced calamari. So, since he was on the City Council, that law went through. And we all immediately went out of our way to show our hairy asses more than usual. On the bright side, that little restroom/changing area at Rockaway magically appeared.

Also, Hypno Toad raises an excellent point - if we're paying for improvements, wouldn't the Pumphouse be a great place to start? Better yet, let's finally clean up the leaky septic tank at Shamrock that contaminates the creek every time it rains.

Also, no, *you're* a towel.

Am I missing something. I don't see anything about towels on the sign...

@4444, well, yeh, you're missing Quadrafino's post text, apparently. If you're in a hurry, skip to the sentence that begins, "kinda reminds me."

They charge $2 all day at Ventura Point for years and nobody has a problem with it. But $5 or $6?? People will do their best to avoid it. Like parking across the hwy, or the shopping mall or worse, residential. This might back fired if they plan it wrong. Plus traffic.

According to the posted notice, I can only "... write the office listed below between 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. weekdays." Fascists. Gotta find something else to do during the evening hours and weekends.

I seriously doubt this will lead to capital improvements on site. A lot of municipalities are hurting for money these days. Pacifica knows that most people parking at Linda Mar are not local yokels (my guess is locals will be issued a sticker). This is just a cash grab.

This permit is with the California Coastal Commission. In all likelihood, Pacifica has already decided they will do this. The CCC is just the agency that oversees any and all development along the coastal zone. Since installing a ticket box will be a non-impactful development, it will likely be rubber stamped.

Word is, locals get the same deal we do.
Word is also: $4/half-day; $6/full-day.
Word is also-also: there's a CCC meeting 12/2 that's open to public comment; although I agree it'll probably be rubber-stamped. (Maybe not. Some weird legal thing could pop up.)

Pretty bogus. How about a fat tax on Denny's, McDonald's, and ######? Forward thinking will attract people to their community. Ban plastic bags. Ban the blue tarps on broken down trucks in people's driveways. The place has potential to be a mini Malibu until a tsunami rearranges things.

I go back and forth in my head on these 'usage fee' things. In some sense, it makes sense to charge only those who use these areas, and not tax the general populous. It's a very greedy outlook. Conversely, shouldn't this kind of thing be free, in the sense that it should come from the larger tax base, so that all can enjoy it? I lean more towards taxing the general populous to maintain parks and not charge a usage fee. The rationale being it's quite possible that it may discourage some people from using them if the cost is prohibitively high, and ultimately, the very act of collecting money and maintaining it this way *may* encourage privatization of the whole process, which I find to be more distasteful since it's a public resource.