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Andrew Stark purchased a Lied Center parking permit for $50 this year. The McCollum resident was one of 50 students who did not want to pay $85 for a Daisy Hill parking permit.
The Yates Center freshman and other residence hall students who saved $35 on parking permits at the Lied Center parking lot, or Lot 300, this year might not have that option next fall.
The Lied Center permit was supposed to be a temporary, one-year plan, but the parking commission found no alternatives this year. It was not supposed to be offered next year, but the parking department may have no other choice.
Aside from the Lied Center, there are no other places to designate for the overflow of cars from Daisy Hill, Provost David Shulenburger said.
As a result, students who live in residence halls may have the option of buying Lied Center-only permits again for next year, depending on how the parking commission fields Shulenburger’s request.
Shulenburger said he would take action on the issue as soon as this week. He sent an e-mail to the commission to try to set up a meeting.
“I’m going to ask the parking commission to reconsider the Lied Center matter,” he said.
The plan this year was to keep the Lied Center from filling up to the point that it could not accommodate daytime events, Shulenburger said.
The parking department oversold Daisy Hill permits by about 39 percent this school year, said Mary Olson, parking department business office manager. Permit holders outnumber parking spaces by about 450. The Lied Center has 1,042 spaces, Olson said.
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The lot usually holds cars from Lied Center events, students with the Park and Ride option and Daisy Hill overflow students.
Stark said he heard about the difficult situation of parking on Daisy Hill before he attended the University.
He said that he liked the direction Shulenburger was going with his proposal to the parking commission, but that the issue was more than approving the Lied Center permit for next school year.
“I think the Lied Center parking pass is something they need to keep indefinitely,” he said. “Students should have the choice on parking on Daisy Hill about half the time or being able to park in the Lied Center all the time.”
The parking department may try to clear some of the Lied Center parking by building a new park and ride lot on West Campus. But this was not approved when it was originally pitched to the parking commission, Donna Hultine, director of parking, said.
If approved, the parking department would break ground on the new parking lot well into 2006, Hultine said. It would have 1,600 to 2,000 parking spaces and cost between $5 and $8 million, Hultine said.
As far as Lied Center parking for next year, Shulenburger said he did not want a situation where students who live in residence halls could not find a place to park their cars. He’s pushing for an answer within the next few weeks.
“It’d be nice to have word by the end of the semester on a resolution for this,” he said.
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