Parking enforcement on side streets around campus will increase due to an increase in complaints from residents and business owners about cars blocking driveways, garbage pickup, fire hydrants, intersections, crosswalks, handicap access points and road signage.
The streets impacted include but are not limited to Park Avenue Extension, Ebenezer Avenue Extension, Stewart Avenue, Park Avenue, Ebenezer Avenue, Aiken Avenue and Union Avenue, according to an email sent on Wednesday by Winthrop’s Interim Chief of Police Charles Yearta.
Yearta said law enforcement and property owners are allowed to tow illegally parked cars that “block access to their property or are safety issues to general traffic.”
“The City of Rock Hill and Winthrop University are community partners on many fronts and we of course want to remain [a] good stewardess to our fellow citizens,” Yearta said in the email.
The Johnsonian will continue to follow the story as it develops.
