/RANT ON
A little background: We purchased our home over 12+ years ago. The primary attraction was that our backyard had a gate that led directly to the Elementary School. Go through the gate, across a small field and there was the school.
Three years after moving in, the school district (Jordan) sold the little field (we didn't even know they owned it) and it was developed into a row of homes. Our back gate now leads into our neighbors back yard.
Shortly thereafter, our City built a walkway to the school between two homes to the West of us (about a 50' walk west of our house), then put a cross walk directly in front of our driveway for kids walking home to the south.
Since that time, parents are too impatient to drive to the Elementary and wait in the long line of cars for their children, so they now come down our street and park all along the neighborhood - choking access to our street, our homes and sometimes even our driveways. Additionally, once they get their own kids, they drive like crazed lunatics trying to depart - usually narrowly avoiding other vehicles, children, pets, signage, etc.
Yesterday was the final straw for me. Upon viewing my roaming security camera (it points to my front yard), I had two cars in my driveway, cars parked atop the cross-walk and parents almost running over children trying to walk south across the cross-walk.
As a neighborhood, we petitioned the city months ago to place signs (with enforcement) declaring our street a non-parking zone for non-residents, but this went nowhere.
Last night, I emailed the city mayor, police and other bureaucrats trying to solicit assistance in protecting our neighborhood and these children.
Photo of a good day with fewer than normal cars along our street:
If the city doesn't take action, I fear I may just have to get home early each day, and as Neighborhood Watch Block Captain, enforce some form of parking restriction on my own. I'm tired of these moronic parents endangering the neighborhood (that they don't even live in), our kids and even their own!
/RANT OFF
A little background: We purchased our home over 12+ years ago. The primary attraction was that our backyard had a gate that led directly to the Elementary School. Go through the gate, across a small field and there was the school.
Three years after moving in, the school district (Jordan) sold the little field (we didn't even know they owned it) and it was developed into a row of homes. Our back gate now leads into our neighbors back yard.
Shortly thereafter, our City built a walkway to the school between two homes to the West of us (about a 50' walk west of our house), then put a cross walk directly in front of our driveway for kids walking home to the south.
Since that time, parents are too impatient to drive to the Elementary and wait in the long line of cars for their children, so they now come down our street and park all along the neighborhood - choking access to our street, our homes and sometimes even our driveways. Additionally, once they get their own kids, they drive like crazed lunatics trying to depart - usually narrowly avoiding other vehicles, children, pets, signage, etc.
Yesterday was the final straw for me. Upon viewing my roaming security camera (it points to my front yard), I had two cars in my driveway, cars parked atop the cross-walk and parents almost running over children trying to walk south across the cross-walk.
As a neighborhood, we petitioned the city months ago to place signs (with enforcement) declaring our street a non-parking zone for non-residents, but this went nowhere.
Last night, I emailed the city mayor, police and other bureaucrats trying to solicit assistance in protecting our neighborhood and these children.
Photo of a good day with fewer than normal cars along our street:
If the city doesn't take action, I fear I may just have to get home early each day, and as Neighborhood Watch Block Captain, enforce some form of parking restriction on my own. I'm tired of these moronic parents endangering the neighborhood (that they don't even live in), our kids and even their own!
/RANT OFF
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