Because the Edition often thoughtlessly blocks Sentinel Drive with move-ins, repair vehicles, and eviction vehicles, Journal and other streets represent an important means of ingress and egress for our community. The proximity to the school should have been addressed in the development plan.

Blocking Journal is absolutely a safety concern for our community - emergency vehicles would need unnecessary detours and some residents have reported being stuck in their garages due to trespassing school traffic that refused to move from adjacent streets!

We have seen transit district police prevent the Giant parking lot (also a private area) from being used as a loading and unloading zone for the school. Why can’t they also help on Journal Street?

It would be embarrassing for Hyattsville if an emergency vehicle couldn’t get through to Editors Park because of school traffic - especially since multiple police are already basically watching Editors Park Drive everyday.

We believe you share the goal of keeping our community safe and look forward to action in this area.

Issue is getting worst and not being resolved. Non-emergency police services were contacted on 10/19 at 4:17pm to address this issue.

Joe Brewer assigned this issue to A/Lt. Evans - HPD

I have shared this with our police department. Thank you.

The car was GOA (Gone on Arrival) when we looked for it yesterday at 1:02pm.
For the record, the City of Hyattsville Parking Compliance has jurisdiction to cite vehicles on Sentinel Dr but not the side streets in that area (Journal, Bulletin, Enquire, etc). Any towing or other actions against vehicles on those streets would be authorized from the Homeowner's association.

This is not a single occurrence. This is a daily occurrence where several vehicles enter private property to await Nicholas Orem school to let oil to pick up their children. There are crossing guards and police presence to direct school buses out. The least that can be done is that the police and crossing guards maintain control of traffic and not block residents of Editor’s Park from entering and exiting our homes and our communities.