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Parking lots to change, pass prices to increase
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Starting Aug. 1, additional parking lots on campus will be restricted to faculty only, and new technology will make it easier for officers to issue tickets.
Lot 34, east of the Computer Services Facility, and Lots 50 and 52 behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall, will become staff-only parking.
Donna Hultine, director of Parking and Transit, said there is "plenty of parking with only 70 percent occupancy at peak time." Most of the open parking spots are by the stadium and west campus, and expanding staff parking will move students to these low-occupancy lots
Parking passes will also increase 15 percent in cost because the department is self-funding the new equipment. The yellow pass cost $225 during the 2014-15 year and will cost $260 during the 2015-16 school year.
The Parking and Transit Department will also implement a digital parking pass system on Aug. 1. Hultine said the department has purchased license plate reading software and two mobile License Plate Recognition enforcement bundles.
The new software, which costs $75,800, will interpret the image of license plates on parked cars and pull up the image in the parking officer's car to read if it is registered for that lot.
Tickets will also be emailed to reduce the number of misplaced tickets, and paper tickets will be given to cars that are not registered.
In the past, Hultine said, the department was reluctant to increase pass costs because of higher costs of living and tuition increases at the University. However, she said over time this digital process is believed to save money and allow the parking system to run smoothly.
Only two officers with cameras will drive through parking lots, which will be more efficient because they do not have to hunt for a physical permit in a car's windshield.
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"We looked closely at Texas Tech University who implemented [License Plate Recognition] passes several years ago, and they had good success reading the plates with no mistakes," Hultine said.
Jessica Larson, a junior from Lincoln, Neb., said she believes the new parking system and the increase in price will deter students from purchasing passes.
The department consistently deals with lost, stolen or traded passes, but this new system should eliminate all of these problems, Hultine said. She said it should also hopefully increase the number of passes bought and decrease the number of parking tickets in the future.
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Larson said she thinks the only way to solve the problem is to build up and expand parking by building a parking garage modeled after cities.
The department will continue to offer its parking ticket forgiveness plan for students. Students can
money for a parking pass and then still walk 20 minutes to class from that lot," Larson said.
Students and staff can register their license plates online through their myKU accounts to be assigned a pass to a certain lot, Hultine said.
take a quiz online under the appeals section of the department's website and certain tickets will be removed from their accounts, Hultine said.
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