A Jim Thorpe resident is warning borough council that people are beginning to rent out spaces along a narrow roadway.

Gerard Romanchick told Jim Thorpe Borough Council this week of a neighbor renting out parking spaces along Switchback Avenue in the Jim Thorpe Heights, a road Romanchick said was narrow and made it difficult with the parked cars.

“I’m here to talk about the backyard parking lots that are opening up these past couple of years,” Romanchick said.

Various residents and businesses have been renting out their yards or driveway or parking lots for parking around the borough during the Fall Foliage Festival weekends.

“Switchback Avenue is a one-lane dead end lane. A commercial parking lot opened up along Switchback,” Romanchick said. “Cars that are parallel parked there are turning around on my property. I marked off my property with rope and ‘no parking’ signs. People are cutting under my ropes to cut through my property to get on the Switchback. They’re banging on my door, wanting to use my bathroom. This all has to stop.”

Borough police addressed Romanchick’s concern.

“On our events meeting today, we did speak briefly about some of the parking issues we have on the East Side in the borough,” Jim Thorpe Police Chief Joseph Schatz said. “We’re looking at next year, going out — the police staff and I, members of the JTTA, and the event staff. If people want to have parking lots, fine; but, they have to be part of the solution.

“It is something that we’re going to take a look at. That’s one of our goals, to try to curb some of that and get some opinions and solutions so we can make it work for everybody.”