SAN DIEGO (FOX5/KUSI) -- Balboa Park visitors may soon have to pay to park, and the impending parking rates are a cause for concern for some groups that utilize the area and meet several times a week.

Groups, predominantly composed of seniors, such as the Redwood Bridge Club and the San Diego Lawn Bowling Club, are hopeful that city leaders will create solutions to address the added expense.

“It’s a great fellowship thing for the seniors and for the general public," David Wageman, a member of the San Diego Lawn Bowling Club, explained.

Meanwhile, Ainslie Kraeck, who is with the Redwood Bridge Club, said it is a place to escape social isolation.

“We’re playing cards. We’re being polite. Everybody is being generous and kind to one another, and it just offers us a way to escape social iso

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