Ask Anthony<\/a> team to find answers and a solution.<\/p>\n\u201cYou told me you called the city this morning?\u201d Anthony Austin asked one neighbor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I did,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n
The people who live along Holmesdale Road say during school hours, students looking for parking spill into their neighborhood. They say the cars line both sides of the narrow street, sometimes blocking driveways, trash cans and even each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis car is definitely illegally parked,\u201d Aedan Downey said in a video he recorded.<\/p>\n
His mother, Xenia Downey, says what started as a handful of cars has turned into dozens. Because of limited on-campus parking at Bishop Kenny High School, students are parking along the residential street and walking through a back gate to class.<\/p>\n
When Anthony Austin visited the neighborhood, he counted about 25 vehicles parked bumper-to-bumper along the curb.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou kind of have to worry about where you\u2019re going just so you don\u2019t hit anything,\u201d Aedan Downey added.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say they\u2019ve placed cones by their driveways and left notes on windshields, but they say nothing has changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just not sure where to go from here,\u201d Xenia Downey told Anthony Austin.<\/p>\n
Anthony reached out to Bishop Kenny High School. Administrators told him they understand why neighbors are frustrated and say construction on campus has reduced available student parking.<\/p>\n
School leaders say they are reminding students and parents about proper parking and driving behavior, including not blocking driveways, impeding traffic or violating any posted rules. They say those expectations are being reinforced.<\/p>\n
But neighbors say when school starts and spots are scarce, teenagers aren\u2019t thinking about policy… they\u2019re thinking about parking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll just move the cone out of the way so they\u2019ll have somewhere to park,\u201d Xenia explained.<\/p>\n
The school also points out that Holmesdale Road is a public street. When cars are parked legally, administrators say they don\u2019t have the authority to enforce anything off campus. They are encouraging neighbors to contact police if vehicles are parked illegally or blocking access.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would like to see no parking signs?\u201d Anthony asked one resident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate to do it, but if that\u2019s the only way we can get some kind of recompense\u2026 yeah,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Anthony Austin spoke with Jacksonville City Councilman Joe Carlucci. He says he has spoken with the city about the possibility of installing \u201cNo Parking\u201d signs with restricted hours on Holmesdale Road. According to Carlucci, that can be done with 75% approval from the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
As for long-term solutions, the school says it is working to add more parking as construction wraps up. Right now, only juniors and seniors can park on campus. School leaders say they plan to offer limited parking to sophomore students in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors say Bishop Kenny students are clogging their narrow St. Nicholas street, blocking driveways and trash pickup. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-153849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}