Avalon Residents,

We have a lot of new residents and want to stress to everybody the importance of not parking on the streets.

Avalon On Street Parking Guidelines

The streets in Avalon are too narrow to allow for constant on street parking. Should there be a vehicle on both sides of the street any emergency vehicle, such as a fire truck, would not be able to get down the street.  It also makes it very difficult when any car or truck is going down the street. We ask that parking on the street is used for temporary occasions only, such a party or for service company vehicles. This applies only if your driveway and garage are fully in use. On street parking also makes it extremely difficult for your neighbors to back out of their driveways. This has caused collisions in the past. Please be respectful of your neighbors.

We have been advised by the Orange County Fire Dept. that should the street be obstructed by parked vehicles they will just push the cars out of the way with the fire truck. In an emergency they don’t have time to back out of the street and go around. A homeowner in Water’s Edge recently reported on Next Door that his Mercedes was rear ended while “parked on the street”. The guilty person failed to stop for this hit and run incident.

orangecounty-fl.elaws.us/code/coor_ch35_artiii_sec35-61

(a) No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main traveled part of the street or highway when it is practicable to stop, park, or so leave the vehicle off such part of the street or highway; but in every event an unobstructed width of the street or highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other …”This also includes parking across the sidewalk, a violation that has recently resulted in The Sheriff”s Dept ticketing the vehicle.”