RE: Campus parking

["Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>]

Central lots are usually available if you arrive somewhat before 8 am--like
7:30.  If you read the literature distributed with parking permits, you'll
find the following statement:

"Parking is very limited on campus. The purchase of a parking permit does
not guarantee that a parking space will be available at all times in the
area that you want to park."

Here's the official response on overselling:
"Why do you oversell permits and how much do you oversell?

Family Housing permits are not oversold. The number of permits corresponds
directly with the number of parking spaces available in Family Housing.
Many regular lots only fill during peak class times. If permits were not
oversold, these lots would remain partially vacant. In fact, because some
less-centrally located lots are grouped with high priority lots, there has
never been a time when a space could not be found for a particular color
permit (exceptions have been noted in Family Housing AFTER permit hours,
supposedly due to visitors to the apartments). For instance, although the
Admin lot (#40) is full on a daily basis, the Law School gold lot rarely
fills. Likewise for red permit parking, lot #50 behind Human Resource
Services has about 30 spaces available on a daily basis, and is within a
block of the SUB!
Permit Oversell: Gold 10%, Red 40%, Blue (no limit), Silver 15%, Green (no
oversell)."

If the university wanted to guarantee parking next to everyone's
destination, the campus would resemble WalMart, ie., single structures
surrounded by a sea of parking lots. While that might be one vision of a
college campus, the university has instead organized itself as a pedestrian
campus, a compact core of buildings relatively close together to minimize
walking times between campus destinations. As I said, the long-term plan is
to move all parking to the edge of campus as central lots are infilled by
buildings.

Why not a parking structure?  Permits would go up by 4X, which no one would
pay as long as there are spaces somewhere.
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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: REEBGAL@aol.com [mailto:REEBGAL@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:11 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: RE: Campus parking
>
>
> In response to Mr. Force's email:
>
> Despite the fact that at no time were all lots full, I paid over
> twice the cost of parking at the Kibbie and in return, I expect
> to be able to park in the more central locations.  Although this
> may sound a bit snobbish, the fact remains that I paid for a
> service that was hardly ever provided.  The amount of parking
> permits the University oversold was outrageous.
>
> Cassandra Shelley
>