The message? Residents don't want them parking on Highland Avenue during athletic activities at the adjacent high school.
The fliers were posted on about 30 to 50 cars parked along Highland Avenue for baseball events Friday and Saturday, residents said.
 High school baseball fans who parked in Half Moon Bay's Highland Park neighborhood Friday were surprised by fliers tucked in their windshield wipers asking them to park elsewhere. |
Although Highland Park residents have acknowledged that people have the right to park on city streets, they say they their request is part of a larger, ongoing problem with the high school that includes traffic, noise, trash, vandalism and possible light pollution with a proposed installation of eight light towers, 70- to 80-feet tall.
The neighbors filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Cabrillo Unified School District after requesting an extension of the review process for the towers under the California Environmental Quality Act.
By distributing fliers, residents said they hoped to achieve awareness and voluntary compliance from spectators.
Residents interviewed for this story declined to go on the record due to the pending litigation. School officials likewise declined to discuss the situation.
However, one high school employee, requesting anonymity, said that the school is actively trying to encourage students and parents to park in the school's parking lot.
The employee said that distributing fliers did nothing to resolve the issue, asserting that it instead has "created lots of bad feelings" within the community.
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