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Colt Park advocates urge ordinance to ban parking on lawns, citing tree damage and blocked emergency access
Summary
Donna Swar of the Colt Park Foundation told the council that vehicles parking on park lawns and interior roads are damaging trees, ruining turf and blocking emergency vehicles; she urged enforcement of proposed ordinance amendments to prohibit parking on grass and in non-parking areas.
Donna Swar, a board member of the Colt Park Foundation, used the May 19 public hearing of the Hartford Court of Common Council to press the council to adopt proposed ordinance amendments that would prohibit parking on grass at city-owned parks and green spaces.
Swar said Colt Park “has suffered for years” from vehicles parking on lawns and “parking in non parking areas,” which she said creates deep ruts, destroys newly planted turf and damages trees. She stated that “a majority of trees' roots grow horizontally in just a few top feet of soil” and that parking on top of those roots kills them; she provided a…
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