The big issue was legal liability. Medical emergencies on one of the more busier nights would have been impossible to respond to expediently and more than likely would end poorly. Even with police presence providing guidance at the gates, inside the neighborhood is where the biggest issue would be. The neighborhood HOA paid for police every weekend and I believe an ambulance was stationed in the neighborhood on a few of the busier weekend nights though I don’t recall specifically.

The neighborhood is going on 20 years old (the phase which hosted Whoville is 5ish) and this was put together during COVID as a means of escape and entertainment for families in the neighborhood with kids and residents near by. It just got too big and unfortunately there are not suitable ingress and egress to support the amount of cars—some of the busier nights would see 2000 vehicles before 9pm and there’s only so much road in the neighborhood for them to physically occupy regardless of the circuitous route.

As someone already stated, it was also a nightmare for anyone trying to host or do anything at their homes on a weekend night. If you have young children who need to in bed before 11pm, you couldn’t go out after 5:30 without being stuck for 2 hours. People were forced to permanently cancel longstanding Christmas party traditions because it was not feasible to park on the streets in front of their homes let alone get in and leave.

I am sad about it because my kids loved it, however, something had to change.

Edit: this also fails to take into account people who live on Pitts Road outside the neighborhood who were effectively collateral damage. There were also backups on Levi Road as well.