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Parking
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235 yellow-zone spaces to metered spaces in Lot 91 southeast of Memorial Stadium.
Board 'sympathetic'
Parking Services has not acted on the consultant's other recommendations. Hutline said Parking Services was searching for a suitable spot on West Campus to park state-owned vehicles. A maincamp parking garage still is in the planning stages.
The parking board is sympathetic to everyone experiencing the parking crunch, Moore said, but the board probably will concentrate on providing more faculty, staff and metered parking. The board probably will not decide to add more yellow-zone parking, and the proposed parking garage probably will have no yellow-zone parking, he said.
That's because oversell creates a worse situation for staff than it does for students, because most faculty and staff are on campus for
eight-hour days, Moore said.
Debbi Douglass, Department of French and Italian office assistant, said she usually arrived on campus at 8:15 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. and went to the parking lot for work. She said she wasn't receiving $55 worth of parking privileges, the price she paid for her red permit.
"Usually I have to park in a yellow zone," she said. "I waste my gas money driving around looking for parking."
But students say the parking shortage is worse for them than for faculty and staff.
Susan Thompson, Lenexa senior, said she usually drove to campus at 8:45 a.m., one to two hours before her first class, so that she would be ensured a spot in Lot 62, east of the Computer Center.
"Every time I get here there's all sorts of red spaces empty," she said.
Morris Faiman, professor of
pharmacology and toxicology and a member of the parking board, said it was hard to know whom the board should accommodate first.
"If the students weren't here, you wouldn't have a university. On the other hand, if the faculty weren't here then the students would have to go home, and if the staff weren't here the faculty probably wouldn't survive." Faiman said. "They're all important. I couldn't even put them in a pecking order."
Permits oversold
Permits oversold
Parking Services statistics from Sept. 17 indicate that of the three main types of parking permits — blue, red and yellow — red permits are the least oversold at 11 percent.
Blue permits are oversold at 32 percent and yellow permits are oversold at 29 percent. Yellow permit oversell on main campus could be higher than 29 percent because that figure includes 636 yellow zone spaces on West Campus.
And when Parking Services is finished converting the 235 yellow-zone spaces in Lot 91 on main campus to metered spaces, yellow-permit onslant on main campa can could grow even more, according to a count of permits sold as of Sept. 17.
Blue, red and yellow zones are classified according to their convenience to campus buildings. Blue zones are the most convenient and yellow zones are the least convenient.
Faculty and staff members are eligible for a blue permit when their age plus years at KU equals 60 or more, although some positions, such as vice chancellor and dean, carry automatic eligibility. Faculty and staff members with at least half-time positions and enrolled in five or fewer credit hours can buy red permits.
Residence hall parking permits, including Jayhawker Towers residents, were 7 percent oversold. Scholarship hall parking permits were 29 percent oversold, even with 27 new scholarship hall spaces added over the summer in Lot 107 near Joliffe Hall. Parking Services doesn't keep track of how many students in each residence and scholarship hall buy parking permits, Hutline said.
A certain percentage of overall is necessary because not everyone who buys permits needs to park on campus at the same time, said George Crawford, former parking board chairman and associate professor of educational policy and the School of Art at Lake Taupo and Moore all said they didn't know what the optimal overall percentage was.
Faiman said the board needed to try to determine an optimal over-sell.
'Hunting license'
"With 32 percent oversell for blue permits, we're not selling them a permit, we're selling them a hunting license," he said.
Although Faiman paid $100 to park in blue zones this year — $70 for the blue permit and $30 for a campus pass — he said he sometimes had trouble finding an available space.
"Not only have I parked in the yellow, I've had to feed the meters," he said.
Even with all the changes made this year and proposals for the future, Moore remains pessimistic regarding situation will greatly improve.
"Parking is so fluid from year to year that what works last year won't work this year." Moore said.
The job is made worse because board members change on a rotating schedule every three years.
"There's no way to solve any of the problems with some sort of final resolution," he said.
Meter
and I had to park at a meter space, I wouldn't pay it."
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Last year, Lot 91 was controlled by toll boots, and visitors had to pay 75 cents to day park there for permits or permits were admitted without cost.
Moore said toll booth operators determined last year that an average of 235 visitors used Lot 91 each day and now show zone and has 565 total spaces.
Moore said most visitors stayed on campus for one working day and most wanted to park close to the Union and the museums.
Parking permits vs. parking stalls
Any visitor can receive a three-hour courtesy pass to park on campus, Moore said. All-day courtesy passes also are offered for special events, if requested ahead of time.
But Moore said the parking board eventually wanted to get rid of the all-day courtesy passes.
"The message is that if visitor parking is given away, then the cost of parking has to be borne by those of us that already pay."
Percentage of oversell is the number of permits sold compared with the number of available parking spaces. Yellow permit oversell on main campus could be higher than 29 percent because that figure includes 636 yellow zone spaces on West Campus.
Source: Parking Services
Moore said.
Moore said.
Campus meters have time limits of 20 minutes, 40 minutes, two
hours, four hours or 10 hours. It costs 25 cents to park at a 20 minute or 40-minute meter, and 25
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cents an hour to park at a two-hour, four-hour or 10-hour meter. Last year, meters also had time
limits of 50 minutes, one hour and 12 hours. The charge was 25 cents for three hours.
Another change this year is that people who overpark at meters can receive multiple tickets. Drivers who overpark at 20-minute meters can get tickets every 20 minutes, and drivers who overpark at 40-minute meters can get tickets every 40 minutes. Drivers who overpark at two-hour, four-hour or 10-hour meters can get tickets once every hour.
The meter-violation fine is $2 if paid within 48 hours and $6 after 48 hours.
Parking Services needs to write multiple tickets to discourage drivers from parking atmeters without putting in quarters. Hultine said. If not for multiple ticketing, it would be cheaper to park at a meter for 10 hours without paying and receive a $2 ticket, than to park at a meter for ten hours at 25 cents an hour and pay $2.50.
Hultine said Parking Services could give multiple tickets only to drivers who overparked at meters. For all other violations, parking services can give a ticket for the same violation only once every 24 hours.
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on parking at KU's Lawrence campus. Today's stories focus on the parking problem, attempts this year to solve it and their effect on students, faculty and staff.
- Tomorrow: The KU Parking Services' budget and how parking decisions are made.
Wednesday: The future of parking on the Lawrence campus.
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