Fountain Farm Lane Parking & Safety Dispute Resolution

“Deep Dive” Podcast

The source material for this podcast consists of excerpts from a November 5, 2025, Zoom meeting recording. At this meeting, community members and local supervisors focused on an abrupt change in parking enforcement on Fountain Farm Lane. This change, which began without prior notification according to residents of Newtown Gate who participated in the meeting. This resulted in numerous parking tickets, causing significant hardship for residents of the townhome and condo communities due to insufficient on-site parking. 

The conversation also focused on safety concerns related to speeding and inadequate crosswalks, suggesting that solving these issues, possibly through measures like adding stop signs or traffic calming, could be a path toward resolving the parking dispute. Listen to the podcast...

A core proposed solution involves seeking a traffic engineering study to determine if the road can be legally reclassified from an arterial street, which would allow for the removal of white fog lines and the creation of designated legal parking areas; meanwhile, participants urge the supervisors to implement a moratorium on ticketing during the holiday period while a permanent resolution is developed.

Briefing Document

Embedded below is the “Fountain Farm Lane Parking and Safety Dispute Briefing” (pdf version; download the Word Doc). This document synthesizes the core issues surrounding a dispute in the Newtown Gate community, triggered by the sudden enforcement of parking restrictions on Fountain Farm Lane. The source is an audio recording from the 5 November 2025 Zoom meeting attended by Newtown Gate residents and HOA members as well as two Newtown Supervisors: John Mack and Dennis Fisher.