PALM BAY, Fla. — The opening of a charter school has created clogged streets in a Palm Bay community and some neighbors are fed up with the traffic.

Darin Varner contacted Traffic Inbox because in Palm Bay’s Lockmar neighborhood, off Emerson Drive, the streets get clogged daily before and after school.

“The roads are blocked,” he said. “It’s still hard to get through.”

The opening of Pineapple Cove Classical Academy a couple of years ago has turned the residential streets of Hurst Road, Pineda Avenue and Nesbitt Street into a drop off and pickup loop.

“It’s a nightmare, it really is,” said Ron Cook, another Lockmar resident. “The traffic? You can’t get out.”

Varner says the narrow streets in this neighborhood were not meant for this kind of traffic, making it challenging to get to their homes sometimes.

More traffic could be coming to the neighborhood, as the charter school has plans to build a high school across Emerson Drive. But before they can do that, the city is requiring school officials to modify their pickup route.

“The car loop is opening up earlier, and when it is full, they have arranged for overflow traffic to stage at the Covenant Church parking lot to reduce vehicle stacking on residential streets,” said Christina Born, public information officer for the City of Palm Bay.

Born says officials are working with the police department, public works and the charter school to ensure traffic is being properly monitored.

Varner and Cook both say something needs to be done, like busing in the kids, to avoid the clogged traffic in their neighborhood.

The city has asked the school to look into that option.

A spokesperson for the city said the school does not have any code violations as it pertains to traffic.

Spectrum News 13 reached out to the school, but school officials declined to comment.

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