to file a law suit against the City because help was delayed due to parking overflow? Actually, | did hear sirens at about
4:45 or so, but | didn't see which way they went on Sunday.
As the Mayor and the BOA & BPW know, we have started a petition to prevent the disc golf from continuing construction
at Roby for a variety of reasons, but this email is strictly about parking (and trash). Parking overflow is just one of the
reasons we (362+ petitioners) and counting are against this disc golf project. Considering there are anywhere from 100 to
600 players at a professional tournament, how can our neighborhood accommodate all these cars safely, if we can barely
accommodate 2 Little League baseball games?
Immediately, something needs to be done to address overflow parking (hopefully, City Leaders will be wise enough
to understand that adding professional disc golf tournaments, which will potentially add another 100 to 600 cars to the
park area isn't a wise decision or a safe one).
On Sunday, there was an SUV parked inches from the crosswalk from Roby to World Academy. Inches. There was a
pick up truck with one tire several inches on the crosswalk. | am 5'2". | entered the crosswalk to cross then realized no
one could see me between those 2 vehicles so that | could safely cross. | literally had to stick my neck out like an ostrich
to see if any cars were coming. An SUV was coming but thankfully, it was going slow and did yield to me. Now imagine |
am a 10 year kid running to the car (parked at World Academy) to get something, in a rush to get back to the game. See
the problem? The Nashua PD was called by me and | was told I had to call parking enforcement, which | had to leave a
message. The operator said the PD would not come out even after | explained about the crosswalk situation. | asked if
the parking enforcement was open on the weekend, she said yes. | left a message on Sunday around 4 pm and again
later that day. No one returned my calls. No one. That is not very good customer service at all.
In addition, there were cars parked halfway up on the sidewalk, grass (which | don't care about as long as taxpayers
aren't paying to fix the lawn areas that look so nice), there were cars parked on the Roby side of Spit Brook (only on that
one side Thank God). There were cars parked in the World Academy as well. The cars thankfully hadn't reached to the
Oak Hill entrance, but | am sure with disc golf they would.
Today, | called World Academy. The girl | chatted with wasn't aware of the parking problems that 100 to 600 disc golfers
were going to bring during a "professional" tournament. | told her cars from the games were parked in their lot
Sunday. She says they don't officially allow cars to park there but a few cars here or there, they tolerate, since sometimes
the school’s customers park at Roby. She said they would need to think about liability if there was going to be overflow
parking in their lot due to the disc golf tournaments and | believe a way to prevent disc golfers from parking there. | got the
impression, they would NOT allow it. On Sundays, | don't believe the Church would allow it either. Oak Hill is private
property and will not allow trespassers parking there either.
So before the City/BPW continues with Disc Golf Tournament construction even in spite of all the reasons 362 plus
constituents have given NOT TO (safety, trash, destruction of diverse wildlife habitat, disruption to critical wetlands,
unsafe parking conditions and unsafe multi use trail conditions for others trying to enjoy nature and the trails), the current
parking overflow needs to be solved this week. Not next week or in the fall. This week. | can't stress the urgency of the
matter enough. | have enclosed photos. | do not expect that any one will receive tickets in the photos nor do | want them
to. | do not want people trying to harass me because of the photos sent to you all. | just want to keep safety at the
forefront of your minds.
Both of us have spoken at the BOA meetings and written to our elected officials. We have a successful petition ongoing
for all the other reasons we oppose disc golf, parking is just one of the reasons. Someone will be hit here sooner or
later. Parking on the sidewalk and parking anywhere on Spit Brook is a danger to pedestrians, baby carriage walkers,
joggers, dog walkers and bicyclists. We are respectfully asking ail of you to come up with a plan sooner rather than
later.
The immediate concern should be protection of the crosswalk. No cars should be allowed to park within 3 car lengths of
the cross walk. Either have police detail there to prevent this or rope it off or something. It could save a life! Next, is no
parking on the sidewalk. The sidewalk is to keep people safe, not for cars. Parking should only be allowed on one side or
the other,
You may want to ask World Academy to allow parking in their lot or the Church but I don’t think they will allow it. There
should be NO parking close to the Oak Hill or World Academy or Church Entrances/Exits. Cars can't see you and you
can't see oncoming cars when pulling out of any of those driveways. Please keep our neighborhood safe!
