In only a few parts of Newport Beach can someone have trouble finding free parking. Balboa Village, the commercial district near the Balboa Pier, is one of them.
Often visitors cruise nearby residential streets until they find an open space, crowding out frustrated residents.
Some of that frustration has been worked out in a new parking plan detailed at a community meeting Tuesday. The Balboa Village Citizen Advisory Panel reviewed a draft plan that would make some residential areas permit-parking only, and would make all commercial street spaces metered.
The two ideas are intended to funnel people into nearby city parking lots.
This parking plan is part of the broader revitalization effort for Balboa Village and the city's other underperforming commercial areas.
"This is important for the business district, it helps with [city] revenues, and it helps the residents," said Bruce Brandenburg, a nearby resident who helped craft the parking proposals.