Neighborhood with San Diego Museum of Art, Old Globe Theatre and Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
Search this neighborhoodBalboa Park is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 490 residents. Its edges follow Upas Street on the north, I-5 and Russ Boulevard on the south, 28th Street on the east and 6th Avenue and I-5 on the west. Parks inside it include Balboa Park (1,149.2 acres) and Golden Hill Community Park & Recreation Center (6.3 acres). Other places inside it include San Diego Museum of Art, Old Globe Theatre, Spreckels Organ Pavilion and San Diego Model Railroad Museum.
By area, Balboa Park is zoned mostly Unzoned (UNZONED). Transit with a stop inside it includes Route 7 (Downtown San Diego - University/College) and Route 215 (Mid-City Rapid). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly building permits. The City issues no building permits on Naval Medical Center San Diego, inside this area, so the permit data has none there. The absence of permits there is not a finding about construction. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Balboa Park police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities. Naval Medical Center San Diego, inside this area, is a federal military hospital with its own police, so incidents on its grounds are not in the SDPD feed.
View safety data →Permits issued in Balboa Park over the past year, still open, are mostly in the category building permits. The City issues no building permits on Naval Medical Center San Diego, inside this area, so the permit data has none there. The absence of permits there is not a finding about construction. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.
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View new construction →Zoning in Balboa Park is mostly Unzoned, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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View schools →A CivicScout report for any Balboa Park address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.
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