The parking mess at the local Little League Complex is as eloquent a visual aid as you'll ever need for the tragic comedy that is suburban "planning"

When you can't walk or bike to a community's Little League Complex because the roads leading to it and bordering the complex are typical suburban speedways with no provision for walkers or bikers, what do you get?

Repeated pandemonium and rising frustration. 125 players on six diamonds means 125 cars, minimum. Now add the incoming cars for subsequent games, and you get pandemonium squared.

Parking lot culture replaces what used to be a valuable community gathering point.

Comments

[Marty Weigel]

This is what you get when you "cluster" sports fields. Instead of putting six diamonds (or soccer fields, etc) in one place, surrounded by a sea of asphalt, facilities should be sprinkled around town, in neighborhoods where the home team might actually be able to walk or bike to the game. Neighborhood schools = neighborhood sports/rec = walkable/livable neighborhoods.

Marty Weigel

[John Michlig]

Indeed - an extreme negative consequence of zoning and "pod" development.

[Bryan Maersch]

Neighborhood Schools, what a novel idea.

I sure am glad that previous School Board (then lead then led by Dave Szychlinski and Dr. Fritag) rezoned our subdivision to a school that was/is 4 miles away instead of any of the three that were in the 2 mile vicinity.

[John Michlig]

Gotta keep the buses in business, I guess.