University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 7, 1987
PARKING CRUNCH
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park mostly in and red zones.
faculty and staff may park in yellow zones, but students cannot park in red or blue zones.
Wiechert said that the earliest a parking garage could be completed was October 1988. But students needn't get excited about the prospect of more yellow-zone parking.
Ray Moore, parking board chairman, said recently that the parking garage probably would be zoned only for blue permits, red permits and meters. He said it was unlikely that the board would add any yellow zones spaces, not even in the parking garage.
Two sites proposed for the parking garage are the open space between Robinson Center and the University of Utah campus lots north of Allen Field House.
Moore said that a parking garage near the field house would be convenient for basketball games and performances in Murphy Hall. But it would wipe out about 140 yellow zone spaces in Lots 56 and 57.
A parking garage between Robinson Center and the Computer Center would not eliminate any existing parking, he said.
But it would eliminate more of what is fast becoming a scarce commodity on campus — green space.
Roger Templin, Student Senate representative on the parking
board, said he would prefer the parking garage to be near the field house rather than in the open space between the centers.
"One of the nearest things about this University is that it's not just building to building." Templin said. "Walking to class is so much more enjoyable if there's something to look at, like trees and landscaping."
Other options
But it's difficult to reconcile the need for green space with the need for parking. Moore said. Enrollment will continue to increase about 3 percent each year through 1996, the consultant's study estimated. To keep parking demand under control, KU will either have to add parking or deny parking to some neoble, he said.
And the last thing the KU parking board wants to do is tell people they can't buy a permit, Moore said.
In fact, restricting or eliminating permits to undergraduates was an option considered by the parking consultant, but rejected by the parking board. Such a change may reduce the number of students enrolling at KU, the study said.
The board rejected three other ideas from the consultant. The consultant said that KU could subsidize fares to encourage more students to use campus buses, encourage more employees to carpool and build satellite lots on West Campus.
bus fares because of a lack of money. It rejected making a concerted effort to get employees to carpool because the consultant said it probably wouldn't be successful.
Finally, the board rejected a proposal to build remote lots on West Campus and transport people by shuttle bus. The consultant said it would more than double the current cost of maintaining parking on West Campus.
Moore said he doubted many people would use satellite lots, even though many drivers say satellite lots are a good idea.
"People think that you will use those lots, and that they will park where they always have," he said.
But Moore still wouldn't rule out satellite lots. As more buildings go on up main campus, such as the new science institute, you will become so dense that the only place to add parking be on West Campus, he said.
The board rejected subsidizing
Parking the Big Eight
Some schools, such as the University of Oklahoma in Norman, already have a satellite lot system. Sarah Blouch, assistant manager of parking and transportation at OU, said the parking shortage there was similar to KU's.
Blauch said the shuttle bus was free to students. However, parking officials at OU want to increase permit fees to cover rising expenses. Students now pay $30 a year for parking, and faculty and staff pay $35 a year.
The University of Missouri-Columbia opened two parking gardens in June and plans at least two more, said Carol McAllister, assistant manager of parking and transportation services.
Missouri has a satellite lot for students that costs drivers $10 a semester. Residence hall parking cost $25, staff parking cost $42 a semester.
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater has considered both parking garages and satellite lots, but couldn't afford to build either, said Lt. James V. Moser, parking manager at Oklahoma State. He advised that parking facilities student parking demand by rezoning existing parking lots.
Although rising parking fees seems to be a trend at most Big Eight schools, Moore, chairman of KU's parking board, said he didn't think KU would increase to收费 next year.
This year, fees were raised from $52 to $70 a year for a blue permit, from $45 to $55 a year for a red permit and from $55 to $40 a year for a yellow permit. Campus passes were removed from $15 a year to $30 a year.
"Right now we have a fixed parking system," Moore said. "Anything that's done to help someone hurts someone else."
Although the proposed parking garage may be an imperfect solution to KU's parking crunch, Moore said, it seemed to be the best solution on the KU parking horizon.
KU neighborhoods help parking crunch
BJORN E. KAALSTAD
Staff writer
As campus parking is getting tighter, some off-campus organizations are helping relieve parking pressure by opening up additional spaces on the Hill.
The Oread Neighborhood Association just completed building a parking lot in the alley of the 1100 block of Tennessee Street, said Harlene Papanek, vice president of the association.
The new lot, which contains 40 spaces, was a pilot project between the association and the Lawrence Office of Community Development to find out how to use alleys efficiently, Papanek said. The lot will be free and open to the public. Joan Goodell, director of community develop-
The area of Ohio and Tennessee streets from 11th Street to 15th Street has a severe parking shortage because many students who drive to campus park there, she said.
year, cost about $27,000. Materials cost about $7,000 and the labor expenses were $20,000, he said. The community development office financed the project.
Lynn Goodell, director of community development, said the project, which was initiated last
The project is our effort to show other people in the area how it could be done.'
- Lynn Goodell director of community development
development
"The project is our effort to show other people in the area how it could be done," he said.
Homeowners who are interested in creating additional alley parking space have a good chance to receive low-interest loans or matching grants from the city, Goodell said.
"All we can do now is wait and see if landlords and home owners care enough to start up," he said.
Kathryn Myers, office manager at North Park Management, said the company might consider using city money to help build alley parking lots and other structures. The managers several apartments and houses in the area.
Also, the Rev. Vince Krische of the Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, said the center had started to charge students for meals at the intersection of Engel and Crescent roads.
The Center is selling $25 tickets that allow people to walk from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily for one am/pm seat.
Krische said the center charged this fee to "gain control over a demand for parking space that has increased a lot this semester."
The center will use the ticket money for lot maintenance and snow removal. Krische said.
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