So why can't they build the parking garage, but just let vehicles enter off Park Boulevard? There's no reason to use the bridge approach, as it was never meant for vehicular traffic.

Without the bridge, it is very difficult for a car to reach the park from the west. Going around north or going south will be very complicated, cost time and energy, and leave the driver in a poor mood to enjoy the park. Try to take a cab instead and it will be very expensive.

But if there was parking around 6th Av and Laurel, then a shuttle bus over the bridge might help.

What exactly is wrong with it now? The cars have been removed from the large area in front of the Museum of Art. Of course most of those parking spaces were for the disabled.

Are people (I mean the rank and file, not the silicon peddling elite) petitioning for more parking? I know it gets crowded, but even on Earth Day I am able to find a spot to park.

Parking is a big business. I'll take bets on the company that will get the parking concession (Ace). As soon as there is a fee for parking in the park, the zoo will begin charging for parking as well.(After 25 years I let my zoo membership go because the society is getting too cheap on the membership perks and commercializing the zoo too much).

This parking garage is the camels nose under the tent because if it gets built, then the domino effect will be to charge for parking everywhere. We know the zoo wants to underground their parking and expand (the zoo on top of the parking structure), so this is just the beginning or making a visit to the park a costly one.

Isn't $50 million to Jacobs like $.50 cent to middle class folk like me? I'm surprised, if this project is SO important to San Diego Billionaire Irwin Jacobs, why doesn't he just gift it to the City. There probably is a tax advantage for Jacobs in there too.

My views on this has changed over time. Large areas of asphalt, such as surface parking lots, are scars on the beauty of the park. The potential of a hidden parking garage, IF DONE CORRECTLY, can improve the overall experience of the park. But, San Diego can not afford this project while the rest of the city's infrastructure crumbles, falling further into disrepair. Our roads are third world disasters, many of our city building are dilapidated, many miles of sidewalks are cracked, uprooted, or worse, nonexistent. And our sewer and storm water systems are collapsing under the strain of capacity.

Our Mayor has promised infrastructure repair as a priority. He has done some, BUT THE BACKLOG OF REAIRS has not only grown during his tenure it's getting worse. Taking on MORE DEBT for Jacobs' vanity project while the city is so far behind in pubic infasture needs is more than foolish. Using questionable financing practices to fund it is downright disgusting.

I agree with the criticisms of the Jacobs Plan as a whole and the merits of SOHO's lawsuit, but it seems the main point here—and the one that will make it rain for Cory Briggs—is Prop B.

Prop B is specifically intended to limit the issuance of municipal bonds for boondoggles by requiring a public vote for any project that isn't just a repair or expansion of existing and vital infrastructure, such as water and sewers.

Our civic bleaters are proving exactly why it was necessary to pass it, as they pretend putting taxpayers on the hook for their billionaire bipartisan campaign contributor's vanity project is "no different" than replacing a broken main.

I suggested in 2011 under a San Diego 2015 & Balboa Park 2015 proposal (which never gained traction) that creation of an automated electric shuttle system for Balboa Park is feasible and removed the need for parking in "The Heart of The Park" when combined with a multi-modal structure on the Inspiration Point parking lot and an access tunnel underneath Park Boulevard and a shuttle bridge behind The Globe's administration building. An automated electric shuttle system could be configured to access all parts of The Park, providing stops at access points that include The Globe. As many of their productions are in the evening, using Zoo Lot and shuttles would actually reduce the steps for physically challenged. The bypass off ramp, roadway, and parking structure create more traffic through Balboa Park while excavating over 10,000 truckloads from next to the Spreckels Organ and transporting them to the Landfill on the Balboa Park East Mesa. The East Mesa is essentially designated as "not build able" because it was created by designating it as a trash dump, filling in a canyon, and creating a situation where the earth continues to settle with Methane gas being generated, A structure on Inspiration Point could have bus system access, light trolley access, auto access, bike access and provide rehearsal facilities and public use rooms - without removing 10,000 truckloads of earth. The Organ Pavillion Parking Lot could be restored to the 1935 Exposition Building that was there, as well as restoring the Pacific Palisades gardens and fountains instead of the unsightly parking lots that exist now. Isn't it truly time to plan and implement for a Balboa Park that will last for many future generations? Think not for yourself, think for those that will come.