Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
7
Residents make plea for spaces
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Residents of University scholarship halls would like to have more parking.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said yesterday that parking services would like to give it to them. Kearns awaits a decision from the office of facilities planning on a proposed lot to be built east of Jolliffe Hall.
"We need parking, and the students need parked," he said. "But I'm not the planner and I am not the engineer."
"There are a lot of people above me who make those decisions."
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that he would meet with parking service officials to discuss the proposed lot, but that, to late, no action had been taken.
Wiechert said the Kansas University Endowment Association owned the Jolliffe lot.
Martin Henry, Endowment Association vice president for property, said, "If indeed the lot under discussion is on Jolliffe property, it's under lease to the University, so they can do whatever they please with it."
Kearns said he contacted Wiechert and Ken Stoner, director of housing, about the proposal on Oct. 18.
"At this point, I'm encouraged, but again, I don't make those decisions," he said.
Scholarship hall residents pay $20 a semester for Alumni Place permits, which allow them to use 157 spaces on lots 100, 120 and 121.
Lot 100 is behind The Wagon Wheel
Cave, 507 W.14th St., and has 100
spaces. Lot 120 has 29 spaces and is at
12th and Louisiana streets. Lot 121, in
However, Kearns agrees with many scholarship hall residents who think there simply are not enough spaces.
the alley of the 1300 block between Ohio and Louisiana streets, has 28 spaces.
Lori Groomes, Topeka sophomore and Sellards resident, said the parking problem might be solved if parking services would not oversell permits.
Kearns said overselling was a common practice because residents needed parking spaces.
He said they were oversold 20 to 25 spaces in Lot 100, which is the lot where most residents want to park.
Grooms said, "I can understand them not wanting to turn the rest away, but we're paying $20 for a permit that doesn't even guarantee you a spot.
"Then you have to pay tickets on top of that."
Lot 120 is a yellow-zone lot. Donna Hulline, assistant director of parking services, said yellow-zone lots were oversold because the number of vehicles parked there differed throughout the week.
Kearns said more residents could park on Lot 120, at 12th and Louisiana streets. The lot is a block and a half from the nearest hall, Grace Pearson.
"That street is really crummy if you have to come back at night and are a female." Grooms said.
The battery was stolen from Grooms' car when she parked in Lot 120 several weeks ago, she said.
Kearns said that the two bars in the vicinity, the Wagon Wheel and the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., and an
apartment complex, compounded the parking problem.
Steve Chrzanowski, president to the All Scholarship Hall Council and a Pearson resident, said. "It seems that the number of people who receive tickets down there just don't care about them. They say even if they knew it was someone else's lot, they wouldn't care."
Chrzanowski said that from 8 to 11 p.m. only three people wore tickets on all the University lots.
Kearns said he estimated the Jollie lot would hold about 40 cars. Chrzanowski, however, said he wasn't sure that this would be enough.
"It would be more parking spaces, but we'll still have the regulating problem, because if people see a new lot, they'll park there, too," he said.
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