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St. Francis Parish needs your help! 

Until we added additional parking places, it was difficult to find a parking place at some masses.  However, recently we did a survey of the parking lot during masses and found that there were many empty parking places.  Why?  Because people were parking in places other than the St. Francis Parking Lot.

 A favorite location to park is the front lawn at the Narthex (Area A).  This is causing damage to the landscape.  In fact, repairs caused by parking damage to the lawn and sprinkler system have been costly for the parish.  A solution has been suggested to plant shrubs along the street, which will hopefully stop vehicles from pulling on the lawn.  Besides the cost of the shrubs and planting them, this could be a loss to St. Francis if the city decides at a later date to expand the road and tear up all the shrubs.  There are also signs posted by the city of Grapevine calling for No Parking along Wildwood Lane, which could lead to parishioner’s vehicles getting ticketed or towed away.  We really want to avoid any additional costs to anyone in the parish, however they are acquired.

Another favorite parking area is across the street in another church’s parking lot (Area B).  There are three different congregations meeting there at different times on Sundays, and using their lot means difficulty for them.  Their church leaders have frequently asked that we refrain, in Christian charity, from using their lot.  Stealing their parking spaces doesn’t make a good reputation for Catholics.

All of this was resolved by the additional parking spaces that have already been added to the St. Francis parking lot (Area C).  There were about 60 spaces added to our parking, and each space cost roughly $1000.  We need everyone’s help as we have been spending money to solve the parking problems, but maybe we need to find better ways to educate the parish so we do not continue to incur new costs associated with parking on the lawn. We need to remember our Christian faith, and to exhibit a bit more courtesy in the way we treat one another, our parish and our community.

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