Marcia Noe wrote:
> I'm wondering how many UTC community members buy more than one parking
> permit, e.g. one for the dorm lot and one for one or more classroom
> building lots, etc. If we limited the purchase of permits to one per
> customer, perhaps this policy would help alleviate the parking crunch.
> 
> A couple of years ago, the ECHO ran a column called Grump Girl.  Students
> could write in and complain about campus problems.  A female student wrote
> in to complain that ongoing construction on a street contiguous to campus
> was delaying her as she drove each day from her dorm to her classroom
> building a couple of blocks away!  Grump Girl replied, "Mommy and Daddy
> must love you [to buy her parking permits for more than one lot]!"
> 
> I'm wondering how much of this kind of thing actually goes on ...

My guess is, probably not very much.  Few faculty or staff (and probably 
very few students) can afford more than one parking permit, especially 
multiple reserved lot permits.  (After all, having more than one general 
permit, or a general in addition to a reserved, wouldn't do a whole heck 
of a lot of good.)

> and why Parking Services couldn't institute a policy of one permit per person.

I don't see what good that would do.  Even if I could afford *five* 
permits, I can only park my car in one place at a time.  Driving it from 
one lot to another may take up a space in the second lot, but it frees 
up a space in the first.  There is no *net* effect on *total* parking 
capacity when you change lots.  And, there may be a few cases where 
someone may legitimately need two permits.  (For example, an 
administrator who still holds faculty rank and has offices in two 
buildings, one for administrative duties and one for teaching.)  Why 
adopt an unnecessarily restrictive policy that may have unintended 
consequences, especially when it will probably do little or nothing to 
solve the problem?

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