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At NAU I live in family housing on campus so I park right next to my apartment and usually thats were my car stays. I walk to class oor I leave my apartment about a 1/2hr before my class is supposed to start so I can ride the bus to class. The wait for the bust is usually a 20min. wait for a 5minute ride.
Parking permits fees are usually based on what type of permit you are going to get . I pay $56 a semester for a Residence hall parking sticker, and I am only allowed to park in my designated area, so if I want to drive to the student union and get some food I have to put money into a parking meter so I won't get a ticket for parking in a non-designated area. Ticket fees for that offense are between $10-50 dollars.
The university houses about 7000 students and every year parking services oversell permits by about a couple of hundred. THe parking lots are not large and there are no parking garages on campus. Ifsomeone finds a space close to their dorm the car usually doesn't leave that space, because if it does bam there goes the space. When you come back the space is taken and it will take another 15mins to find another one. I've seen people cruise the parking lot waiting for someone to leave just so they can get a space.
If I wanted to park in all the commuter lots or all residence hall lots I would have to spend about $500 dollars per yr (I believe that's right) to have that "PRIVILEGE" , which is not one that I want to pay to have.
There are employee lots where students can park in if they have a night class. Parking in those lots doesn't start until 5pm and if the parking nazi's are doing rounds and find a student parking in that spot and the parking nazi's watch's reads 4:59 you will be ticketed.
It get's worse when the university has events like the career fair because then whole parking lots will be closed and people that park in those lots will park in the commuter lots or in metered parking lots using spaces that need to be used for commuter students.
It's a big mess and it doesn't seem like the problem will be solved anytime soon.
*Sorry about the use of the word nazi, it's just the way that we describe parking personnel here at NAU, because it alway's seems like they are just looking to give someone a ticket for the smallest thing. If I offend....I'm sorry in advance.
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