Laura Carr assigned this issue to Gary Bullis

Thank you for the heads up. Hyattsville Parking Compliance will check this out while on patrol this morning. We will warn or cite if needed and appropriate.

Please note we understand the safety issue as well as the temporary needs for oversized vehicles to service this specific area - the Edition side and the Townhouse side - as well as other areas of Hyattsville.

Agreed

I think people understand when the townhomes need moving vans (there is no place to really load/unload)... the issue with the edition is that they do have a loading area and dont use it. They also have multiple move-ins happening at the same time and they park on either side of the street creating a funnel. While this isn't a daily occurrence - it is extremely frequent.

The Edition is a terrible neighbor! Every day features hours!!! of unwanted concert from multiple cars in their parking structure. Most days feature unwanted noise from domestic disputes, often involving profanity. Every day, certain residents in our community can read a book on their balcony at midnight due to the Edition lights! In a perfect world, Hyattsville would have contested this during development- Riverdale was looking at the noise from HVACs whereas hyattsville apparently rubberstamped planting trees over HVACs and subsequently damaging neighbor relationships.

The bottom line is that the Edition has shown through it’s refusal to control its vendors that it doesn’t care about safety in our community. Recently one resident took a photo of one of the Edition folks dropping bags of trash literally over the side of the building. Natasha at the Edition was like we’ll leave a note for that person. I bet that note didn’t include a fine and wasn’t like “you committed a criminal midsdemeanor that should have resulted in a $1500 fine.” As a FYI, Natasha at the Edition did not send her staff out to clean up the mess!!!

The Edition has never tried to be a good neighbor. Instead, they run a business where the city had to intervene to get them to latch the bottoms of the trash, the FBI raided their building, and a gun was stolen on their property. And even if you say that’s the old management, the new management let a dude drop 3 bags of trash over their railing without so much as a fine. New management makes each night miserable with car noise and domestics and hasn’t even volunteered so much as a 1 day pool pass. New management lets their Belfor vendors block in Editors Park residents in their garages and won’t even tell the vendors they are illegally parked on private property when a helpful call is made. New management should look carefully at who is answering their phones and the message those lazy voices are sending to considerate neighbors!

The real problem is that the Edition has given zero signals they care about the safety of this community - and show that on a daily basis by actually actively compromising community safety. It’s not hard to require residents to use moving trucks of a certain size and coordinate through loading docks. It’s not hard to reallocate “future resident parking”.

The issue is that the Edition consciously chooses not to manage their traffic effectively on a daily basis.

One day, something bad will happen and media-trained neighbors will say “we’ve been reporting the Edition’s actions to the city for years - there’s a record of complaints, of safety concerns, and danger but no one took meaningful action to address the Edition as a root cause.”

As of today, obviously the Edition and the City decided not to take action against a routine problem on a narrow street that makes out community less safe for bicyclists, pets, and families. That’s cool until the day someone gets hurt and accountability circles. It’s not like there aren’t warnings on the record to trigger liability for the Edition and Hyattsvile….