Melissa Hamel worries that in the future, she won’t be able to host gatherings at her home in the summer.
The Jamaica Plain resident lives on Lamartine Street, within walking distance of White Stadium in Franklin Park, which is in the midst of a redevelopment that will eventually make it home to a new professional women’s soccer team.
Hamel and her neighbors expect to be granted free parking permits that give them exclusive access on game days. But she says the one guest pass per household the city has promised won’t always be enough to stop her friends from being ticketed or towed.
What makes planning more difficult is that, despite the ongoing work at the stadium, which has been almost fully demolished except for one exterior wall, the city and soccer team, Boston Legacy FC, have not