How is access to Balboa Park addressed in the plan?
The concept plan calls for the development of a new below-grade, four-level parking structure that will provide 4,803 spaces for automobiles. More than a third of the parking structure, which extends approximately a quarter mile along Park Boulevard, is located below the area currently leased by the Zoological Society. The structure also includes a transit center for shuttles, taxis, and tour buses, as well as school buses serving Balboa Park museums and attractions. Landscaped pedestrian walkways on top of the parking structure replace asphalt-covered surface parking lots once occupied by about 3,000 automobiles, and create an enhanced continuous green belt along Park Boulevard, extending from the fountain near the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center to the grassy lawn around the War Memorial Building.
