PARKING RECOMMENDATIONS:
I. Improve Tracking System
- A.
- Link vehicle registration with core numbers.
- B.
- Free annual registration for all faculty/staff/students.
II. Provide Adequate Parking
- A.
- Add spaces in C Lot (Freeman) along road towards entrance, and designate the entire east side for student use. (already parking there anyway)
- B.
- Provide a parking area to the NE of Porter Field Road. (est. 80 spaces)
- C.
- Designate an additional 40 spaces in Center for the Arts lot for student use.
- D.
- Create additional parking in E Lot (Wright) by relocating tennis courts to field house area. (Est. 150 additional spaces)
- D.
- Convert Old Storrs Ave. to Fac/Staff to replace some of loss of spaces on 125 and release pressure on Old Chapel Road. (24 spaces)
- E.
- Additional pressure will be released by removing students from fac/staff areas.
III. Enforcement
- A.
- Hire an additional officer whose main responsibility is parking regulation.
- B.
- Restructure fee schedule to increase charge for multiple tickets.
- C.
- Impound vehicles with over 15 tickets, release contingent on approval fron Dean of Students.
IV. Education / Communication
- A.
- Announce any changes in parking system before students leave this spring.
- B.
- Continue to put explanations of violations on tickets.
- C.
- Provide a detailed parking regulations brochure to each person upon registration.
OPTION ONE - Task Force Recommends
V. Wait to assign parking according to lots until we are sure of our numbers.
- A.
- (Until we have built sufficient student parking.)
- B.
- (Until we have established annual registration and core number linked statistics.)
- C.
- Continue first year student parking, but only in CFA and Porter Field Rd.
- D.
- Provide an area for off-campus students to park.
OPTION TWO - Acceptable
V. Assign student parking lots according to Residence Halls.
- A.
- Distribute stickers at the time of arrival and registration.
- B.
- Color and letter coded.
- C.
- Room change and additional vehicles will be accomodated according to availability.
- D.
- (see attached "OPTION TWO" for possible alotment)
OPTION THREE - Acceptable
V. Assign student parking in broad categories.
- A.
- Organized same as OPTION TWO
- B.
- Off-Campus, Residence Hall Lots, Small House Lots, First Year Student.
OPTION FOUR - Not Recommended
V. Assign student parking through random number draw.
- A.
- Extremely difficult to organize before end of year.
- B.
- Could result in students drawing for non-existent vehicles "just in case."
OPTION TWO POSSIBLE PARKING ALOTMENT:
(Estimates for dorms based on this year's numbers)A Lot - 200 spaces
- Hillcrest 2
- Pearsons 42
- Forest 85
- Miliken 57 (Note - includes some 1st year vehicles)
- TOTAL 186
C Lot (Freeman) - 44 to 56 spaces (depending on assignment of fac/staff and added spots)
- Atwater 15
- Davis 13
- Lang 23
- TOTAL 51
D Lot (Coffrin) - 112
- Hadley 81
- Kelly 29
- TOTAL 110
E Lot (Wright) - 139 (Plus 150 additional spaces = 289)
- Coffrin 39
- Chateau 9
- Voter 17
- Gifford 64 (Note - includes some first year vehicles)
- Hepburn 71
- Painter 35
- TOTAL 235
- Off Campus (95 registered, est. 40/day)
- TOTAL 275
F Lot (Science Center) - 65 (official count) 49 (eye count)
- Starr 41
- Henkles 5
- 126 S. Main 1
- TOTAL 47
Feise - 23
- OA 11
- Feise 5 (first year currently, number likely to be higher with upper class)
- Porter 7
- TOTAL 23
Longwell - 12 to 16
- Longwell 6
- #6 Hillcrest 6
- Perkins 4
- TOTAL 14
Small Houses - (sufficient parking)
- PALANA (15) 1
- Franklin #1, #5 (12) 13
- ADP/Mill (15) 13
- KDR (12) 8
- Turner (7) 4
- Weybridge/Homestead (30) 9
- 44/46 Shannon (?) 3
- 44 College (?) ?
- 12 Adirondack (?) ?
- Harris Farm (?) ?
CFA / Porter Field Road - 80 (or 200 with additional spaces)
- All First Year vehicles 157
- (Battell)
- (Allen)
- (Stewart)
- (Milliken Hall)
- (Gifford Hall)
- TOTAL 157
Total Student Spaces 1026 (assuming additions)
Total est. Student Vehicles 914 (+ unregistered 112 = 1026)
This is still cutting things close. If we do assign lots, we should account for an overflow area in case we end up with more than we can handle.
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