Waveny paves 10,000sq. feet of fields
October 9, 2008 by admin
Defying most forms of logic, Waveny paves over 10,000 square feet of playing fields to make more parking spaces.
The Town of New Canaan figured out how to stop folks from parking on the grass in Waveny Park. They tore up the grass and made a parking lot. Wow! Now there’s some deductive logic for you. Could they have read my blog?
Every day of the week in Waveny Park visitors drive right past the huge empty parking lots, ignore the ‘No Parking’ signs and display their character by parking on the grass as close as they can get to an “athletic” field. Laughable, isn’t it? Like driving to the gym and getting on a treadmill.
Photo of the empty lot:
Photo of cars just yard from the empty lot, on the grass:
In an attempt to curb the illegal parking, they tore up the grass and made it pavement. Only thing is, the 50-60 new parking spots aren’t where everyone typically parks. I’ll bet money right now, this destruction of 10,000 square feet of fields will do nothing to stop drivers from parking as they have for years: all along the main drive and anywhere else they want to keep from walking the extra 100 yards to a legitimate parking space.
The installation of a yellow rope border along the driveway only forced cars to park parallel instead of pulling all the way onto the lawn. The No Parking signs do nothing to deter people.
When a builder considers a new development, a priority are the zoning requirements for parking. Didn’t the pool come with it’s own parking lot at the price of a woodlands? What about the moving of the Paddle Courts? What about the Dog Park? I think someone forgot about parking. Maybe there isn’t enough room in our Park for all these new developments.
I’m not an engineer but I noticed stormwater management issues. The grass they tore up served as a drainage culvert allowing water to move along the roadside. Now there will be a large surface area draining onto the driveway which is graded toward the pool. When it rains…. Enjoy.
Love those oil solids.
A question for Yahoo answers: If I built a parking lot for my guests and they still parked on my lawn, should I pave my lawn?
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