Comments on: Grass-Parking Thwarted at Glenlake Park

By: David Harris

David Harris — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:34:40 +0000

Church Street parking for the win. We have a 1-yr-old and a 4-yr-old. 1-yr-old comes out first, then 4-yr-old, with one hand holding the 4-yr-old firmly. We then walk on the sidewalk. I salute the protection of the grass.

By: AlN

AlN — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:31:47 +0000

I have two young children who use the park often. No, there is not enough parking within the park itself, but if there was, there wouldnt be enough space for people to play. Unless you’re handicapped and all those spaces are taken, there is no excuse to park on the grass, the trail, or anywhere that is not a legitimate parking space. .

I like to park on Glendale and walk with my kids into the park. That two minutes of walking–it does a body good!

By: sarahph

sarahph — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:10:18 +0000

Frankly, we gave up on Decatur Active Living youth sports last year b/c it’s too poorly organized and there’s too much inside baseball with certain “favored” coaches being able to build their own “select” teams and too many kids of “favored” coaches being able to “play rough” without penalty. We’ve been using AYSA, Clairmont Pres, the YMCA and Druid Hills for our youth sports needs. They all have plenty of parking, well organized games, excellent volunteer coaches, and little or no inside baseball.

Parking on the grass is no longer a concern for us.

By: cinD

cinD — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:00:28 +0000

sorry for the run-on sentence. (grammar police)

By: cinD

cinD — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:58:41 +0000

Sorry, I disagree.

I do agree that the park does not accommodate parking for all who use it. I also agree that Church Street has heavy, fast moving traffic, but as I said before, there is plenty of parking on Church Street to accommodate, and for families with multiple children/infants, those parking spaces on Church Street used to be a whole lane for traffic, but were made into parking spaces, and are pretty wide considering, and I’ll not leave out that there are sidewalks, so it’s not like you would have to load/unload streetside.

Either way, I don’t think that parking on the park’s grass that the city (tax payers) paid to sod, OR parking on private property is a good solution.