Vicky Wroblewski, a Windsor Crest Subdivision resident and recent president of the subdivision board, told the City of Wildwood Board of Public Safety on Aug. 7 that neighbors want the city to ban parking on a tight curve of Windsor Crest Boulevard after a fire truck could not pass the street earlier this year.
Wroblewski said the subdivision was built about 20 years ago under a neo‑urban design and that the streets and short driveways leave many households dependent on on‑street parking. She told the board that one household on the curve now includes four drivers and multiple vehicles, and that two residents with disabilities rely on curbside parking for mobility.
The Windsor Crest request asks the city to prohibit parking from the fire hydrant around the corner to the alley to address the narrowest portion of the street. Wroblewski told the board the proposal is targeted and intended to keep larger MetroWest emergency vehicles able to navigate the turn: “the submission that I made to Mister Brown was to say from the fire hydrant around the corner to the alley to have no parking there, to address the area that’s the tightest in the subdivision.”
Wroblewski said subdivision members oppose restricting parking to one side of the street because many homes lack off‑street capacity and because mailboxes are placed at the curb; she said residents worry one‑side parking would block mail delivery and reduce access for neighbors with mobility issues. She also said the subdivision has alleys that provide access in other locations and that the requested no‑parking zone would be limited to the specific curve where the earlier emergency‑vehicle access problem occurred.
The request was presented during the meeting’s public‑comment portion and was submitted to city staff prior to the meeting. No motion or formal board action on the no‑parking request was recorded at the Aug. 7 meeting.
The petition and diagram were provided to the board and to city staff (Mister Brown) for consideration; the public comment concluded with the board inviting questions but taking no vote.
More detailed engineering review, a staff recommendation, and any proposed ordinance or traffic regulation would be required before the city could enforce a no‑parking restriction on a public street.