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The Ked and Black. Thursday. March 29. rjl.1
10,000 SPACES; 20,000 CARS
Parking problem continues
By JON HAM
When Robert Kuhne found
his designated parking lot full
one day last quarter, he circled
the lot then, already late for
class, pulled on the curb, wrote
a note saying he'd by back in
an hour, and left for class
When he returned the
inevitable ticket was waiting
for him.
Outraged, he filed an appeal
with the student Judiciary,
joining the 3,000 students who
take such cases to the student
court each year
•When I bought my sticker. I
thought I was buying a parking
space, not a lottery ticket ”
said Kuhne, a Dutch exchange
student. “It was not made
clear to me what I was paying
for.”
Many students share
Kuhne’s belief that a parking
ticket should entitle the student
to a readily available parking
slot.
want to go to school those
hours and work in the
afternoons. As long as we have
this situation, we’re going to
have a parking problem."
Many parking headaches
would be solved if dormitory
residents used lots on the
periphery of the campus and
left the dorm lots often close
to classrooms - open for
commuters. Van Vleck added
HB ESTIMATED that a
single space will accommodate
three commuter cars a day.
but only one car of the
resident, who keeps the car on
campus around the clock
• There are about 20.000
active cars in the system,” he
said, “and there are 10.000
parking spaces. This means
you've got to assign approxi
mately two cars per space It’s
pretty good where commuters
are involved, but when you get
into the dorm lots, you can't do
When I bought my sticker I thought I was
buying a parking space,
not a lottery ticket'
-Robert Kihne, Dutch exchange student
Photo bv MINI.A LINN
CARS C ROWD INTO B-ZONF HOPING FOR A SPACE
All of the parking lots are targets of complaints on parking problems.
The “lottery ticket" argu
ment is familiar to Judy
Durrance. a member of the
Student Judicial Council who
acts as liason to the campus
traffic court. Although she
works to iron out specific
student problems, there is no
way the court can condone
breaking the parking regula
tions simply because a legal
space is not available.
"Inability to find a proper
space does not constitute a
reason for appeal,” she said,
reciting a regulation from
memory
All the judiciary can do is
give the student a sympathetic
ear, but letting him tear up his
ticket only if offers a very good
reason for his parking offense,
she said
ALL CARS PARKFI) illegal
ly will be ticketed, according
to Marvin E. Van Vleck. head
of the Traffic Safety Depart
ment. And this means all cars
not parked between the painted
lines in their assigned lots,
regardless of how crowded the
lot may be
To Van Vleck, the solution
to current parking problems
lies in some major reforms in
the system that include stag
gering classes to rid the
University of its late morning
parking rush.
“The University has sche
duled too many classes third,
fourth, and fifth periods.” he
commented "This is how you
get the lots so unbalanced.
First, a majority of faculty
wants to teach these periods
and do research in the
afternoon And second, you
have a lot of students who
BOI zoning
planning for
Prince Ave.
By PIIIL SCOGGINS
The Athens-Clarke County
Planning Commission has an
nounced plans for an amended
Business Office Institutional
(BOD zone for Prince Avenue
According to Stan Strickland,
assistant planning director, the
commission has been under
pressure for some time to act
on the Prince Avenue issue
The problem on Prince Ave.
developed as a result of
increased commercial expan
sion Over a period of years,
what used to be a street
famous for its historic build
ings and aesthetic values
changed into a business
thoroughfare Some people who
remember the old Prince
Avenue are now trying to save
what is left. Proponents of the
Prince Ave. crusade include
such groups as the League of
Women Voters.
The planning commission
has argued that a new zoning
district is not the answer to the
problem "If we draw up a new
zone for one particular area,
then anyone in the county
would be able to apply for it.”
said Strickland
Therefore, the planning staff
has worked with the present
BOI zoning on Prince Ave.,
and has come up with an
amended BOI zone
"What we did, basically, was
to tighten up restrictions on
setback, parking, landscaping,
and signs,” explained Strick
land.
The amended BOI zone
requires that parking lots be
set back from the right of-way
line no less than 40 feet. The
former setback requirement
was 20 feet Also, parking must
be located to the sides and rear
of the building
The amended zone stipulates
that the open space in front of
a building must be planted in
grass and—or live shrubs and
tree*
that ”
The key to adequate parking
facilities is money, he added
"We’ve got plenty of space for
new parking The problem is
finances.”
Presently, vehicle registra
tion brings in $90,000 yearly;
reserved parking spaces, such
as key card lots at $1 a month,
bring in $20,000; and parking
violations are at the top ol the
list, bringing in $100,000
ALL OF THIS goes to
support the campus bus
system, leaving no money for
parking lot improvements or
the pavement of new lots. Van
Vleck said.
He noted that a faculty and
employee fee, which would
raise an estimated $60,000 in
extra funds, had met with loud
disapproval when proposed two
years ago.
A blanket $3 per quarter
parking fee for all students,
faculty, staff, and employees,
regardless of whether they
park cars on campus, would be
a viable solution to the
University’s money problems.
many students who pay a $4
athletic fee never go to an
athletic event in their college
careers.
There have been other
suggestions, he said, although
this plan seems to him the
most practical for the Univer
sity It is. for the near future
at least, a far more acceptable
in
the
he said.
Aside from bringing in some
$30,000 in extra revenue a
year, this blanket parking fee
would free the money taken in
from traffic fines for use in
building new lots, he added'.
"If we’re going to finance a
bus system, we should do it on
a fixed income. All the money
from (traffic regulation) viola
tors should go in a contingency
fund for parking improvements
only.”
He countered criticism of
this fee with the fact that
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Photo by MINLA LINN
"THE MAN" GIVES TICKET TO DRIVER
All the student judiciary can do is listen sympathetically
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Xssociulion ( ollegiate chapter meeting
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Xpplications may be picked up at the
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April «.
There are about 20,000 active cars
system and there are
10,000 parking spaces.’ -Marvin Van Vleck,
head of Traffic Safety Department
solution than the proposed
high-rise lots, he said
"It'll be a long time before
vxe get into high-rise parking
ncre for one thing, xve’ve still
got a lot of space. And another
thing, the faculty wouldn't pay
$H a year two years ago. so
how could you expect them to
pay $10 a month for high-rise
parking?"
He said that such a facility
would cost about $20 per space
per month to operate, which
would mean assigning two cars
to each space.
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