Why is it placed so close to the road and also directly facing it? As a first step, maybe they could try turning it 90 or 180 degrees and see if that helps increasing accessiblity.
doesn't the fire department connect the hydrant to a pump truck and feed hoses that way rather than connecting hoses directly to the hydrant to fight the fires? kind of hard to park a truck where you're proposing to rotate the hydrant
I guess they could double park and use feed hoses that can tolerate a relatively tight bend?
Were I'm coming from: When a problem keeps happening over and over and over again because it's next to impossible to train 100% of the population to follow every rule to the letter, you work around the problem using design and technology. You don't use fines to create a revenue source.