City Considers Yard Parking Ban

Today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the the City of Little Rock may reconsider allowing cars to be parked on residential lawns.

Back in 2004, the Little Rock Planning Commission approved a proposal to require automobiles to be parked only on improved parking surfaces. Such a requirement would benefit the city by keeping residents from destroying lawns and causing both ugliness and sediment runoff. As you can see above, parking on a lawn kills the grass and leaves the surface vulnerable to erosion. It is ugly, too.

After the Planning Commission proposed the ordinance, it was inexplicably dropped by city government.

The Broadmoor Neighborhood Board of Directors passed a resolution back in 2004 encouraging city directors to pass the ordinance. Please encourage our city director, Doris Wright, to support the ordinance.