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Bow Town narrows no-parking zone on Stack Drive after residents cite safety concerns
Summary
After weeks of complaints, Bow Town selectmen voted to shorten temporary no-parking signage on Stack Drive and directed staff to press the facility’s management for a voluntary off-street parking plan while seeking legal advice on longer-term options.
Bow Town selectmen voted to shorten a temporary no-parking zone on Stack Drive on Dec. 16 after residents, police and public works officials raised safety and emergency-access concerns related to repeated on-street parking near 14 Stack Drive.
The board approved a motion to remove two temporary cones and ask the public works department and police to place fewer, better-positioned temporary no-parking signs while the town pursues other steps, including contacting the property’s managers and consulting the town attorney. The voice vote to adjust the signs passed by the board.
The debate followed many residents’ statements that the new, repeated parking pattern had converted a quiet residential dead end into a de facto employee lot. Mary Beth Walls, a nearby resident who identified herself in the meeting as also speaking from “the lawyer in me,” urged the board to try negotiating with the facility’s operator before imposing permanent restrictions, saying, “Rather than burdening or…
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