L. Towamensing supervisors hear parking concern

Lower Towamensing Township supervisors heard concerns about a parking issue at the Tuesday night meeting.

The first was the sight-distance issue at Moyer Place off Little Gap Road.

According to a Google map, Moyer Place is an unpaved, U-shaped roadway that runs behind the houses on Little Gap Road and has two connecting points onto that road.

Resident Donald Griffith asked the supervisors to consider eliminating parking in front of the house at the corner of Moyer Place and Little Gap Road. He said the cars block the line of sight and make it difficult to pull out onto Little Gap Road.

“This access drive is not really an access drive,” said Supervisors’ Chairman Brent Green. “It’s a private matter.”

The township considers the road a private drive, not a township road.

“It’s a parking issue. Parking on the sight triangle,” Griffith said. “It’s not a personal road.”

Green said in order to eliminate parking at one house, the township would have to enact an ordinance that would not allow parking on Little Gap Road in general. Even if they did that, enforcement of no parking would be difficult, because it is a state road. Enforcement would have to be done by the state police, who have issues of higher priority to handle.

Green said the township was going to consider making Moyer Place a one-way road so that vehicles could only pull into the roadway at the location at issue. This would eliminate the sight-distance problem. But this option wasn’t pursued, because Griffith wanted the parking option looked into further.

If the other residents in that area support no parking on Little Gap Road or Moyer Place becoming a one-way street, then Green said he would welcome letters from them.