TAMPA, Fla. -- How much trouble can one parking spot cause? A lot if you're dealing with fast food traffic and a school.

That is what's happening just south of Kennedy Boulevard and Rome Avenue.

Julie Undella feeds her morning coffee need with a trip through the local drive through, but there is a problem spot all in the caffeine in the world won't fix.  

"I won't take the right out of here to get to Kennedy, because I have to go left, so I don't want to cross over that traffic," Undella said. "It's so bad and dangerous, so I finally will go south and go to Cleveland and go north on Howard that way."

But in avoiding one problem she ran into another.

"So, I don't know if it's supposed to be a parking spot or not, but people are using it as one," she said.

As parents are dropping their kids off at the school across the street, northbound traffic backs up to the intersection at Kennedy.

Any car parked in the space forces northbound drivers into the southbound school drop off traffic.

"Then the drive-through exit gets backed up and the people leaving the parking spaces are backed up," she said.

Undella said she would like to see the space designated as a no parking area.  

Real Time Traffic Expert Chuck Henson has talked with the city and learned there is a plan for at least part of the issue.

Along Kennedy Boulevard there is a signal at Willow Avenue and another at Howard Avenue. There is nothing in between, not even a crosswalk.

Ron Chin with Florida Department of Transportation said by roughly this time next year, there will be a traffic signal there.

As for that one parking space on Rome at the driveway, the city says it will take a look at the sight lines and make the call if cars should be able to park there or not.