Northwest 127th Street, along the north side of Felida Community Park, is mostly just a two-lane street, but it widens at the park entrance. This widened space would be ideal for parking your car if you want to enter the park from the north side, if it wasn’t for signs that say: “No Parking on Pavement.” I have two questions: What does that mean? Can you park on the sidewalk? I doubt that. Once, a police car was parked there, and I asked the officers what it meant. They did not know, either. And, why are the signs there in the first place? Now, people park on the other side of the street, blocking traffic.
— Bill Pfeifer, Felida
Bill, the pavement in “No Parking on Pavement” means the roadway itself. It doesn’t mean try parking on the sidewalk instead, because, of course, parking on sidewalks is never OK. (Regular fans of this column already know this from our occasional browbeatings about rolled curbs and their tendency to invite drivers to ease up onto the sidewalk to park. Resist the urge!)
According to Clark County parks spokeswoman Jilayne Jordan, the “No Parking on Pavement” signs were installed to deter people from parking where the road widens and, as you point out, parking seems appropriate. It may seem that way, but the county decided it’s not.
“The county installed the signs back in 2005 after a neighbor contacted Clark County Public Works to voice concern about cars parked on the north side of the road,” Jordan said. Those parked cars were clogging up visibility at the intersection of 127th and 39th Avenue, which comes down from the north here.
