The updated transportation policies will improve parking and parking access on the Hilltop and West campuses.
By Jessica N. Roberts
June 15, 2001
To improve parking and parking access on the Hilltop and West campuses, the University is implementing and considering policies that focus on the enforcement of transportation guidelines.
Updated campus parking policies are in the following areas: permit prices, enforcement hours, summer/holiday parking privileges, green parking permits, zone changes, parking fine enforcement and the Athletic Complex traffic route. The goal is to help ensure that parking is available to those who have purchased permits.
An evaluation of current parking operations concentrated on the inventories of the number and uses of parking spaces, fiscal operations, and rules and regulations and was conducted with the goal of providing safe and well-maintained parking while balancing the competing uses for available parking spaces.
The updated transportation policies will improve parking and parking access on the Hilltop and West campuses. |
Effective July 1, parking policies will be more aggressively enforced, and payment of fines will be required before renewal of permits during summer 2002. Anyone who has not paid fines for violations incurred after July 1 will be required to pay those fines before permits will be granted for the 2002-03 fiscal year.
All vehicles parking on University premises are required to have a parking permit at all times, unless the parking area is part of a pre-approved special event. Permit-holders are required to park in their defined color zones from 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Unless otherwise posted or specified, permit-holders may park in any zone between 5:30 p.m.-7 a.m. Monday-Friday and all day on weekends. Beginning immediately, these policies will be more aggressively enforced.
Parking permit fees will increase on July 1 by approximately 4 percent, with a slightly higher increase for red and green permits. In addition, daily parking permits will increase from $2 to $3.
Holders of green parking permits will be allowed to continue to park in yellow zones during University break periods over the next year. This policy will be reviewed again in the upcoming year, and no new faculty/staff green permits will be available until July 2002.
All green permit parking at Throop Garage will be assigned to the top level, increasing the number of available green spaces there. Some of these spaces may, on occasion, be designated for special-event parking. Green parking on the South 40 will be limited to the Church Lot and eliminated from Wohl Garage.
This summer, a one-way traffic pattern for the parking lot in front of the Athletic Complex will be adopted. The northernmost lane will move from east to west, and the southernmost lane will move from west to east.
New written materials and a Web site will be developed later this summer to provide the University community with the most complete information about campus parking operations.
