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Parking has to be the biggest headache and is a hassle on every college campus I've ever been associated with. As an undergrad, we called them "hunting permits"! I attended a primarily commuter campus (less than 10% of students lived on campus) so there was no difference between residential/ non-residential permits. As I commuter, that sucked because the dorm students would move their cars after classes were over and when commuters tried to make their 8 am classes there was nothing left! (for those who think it doesn't make sense to allow commuters to be close to your dorm, have you ever looked at where else they can park? Maybe your lot isn't close to too many classroom buildings, but are there enough lots that are? You're already on campus to get to your classes, commuters aren't. The university doesn't care about making it convenient for residential students to be able to go off campus for anything) But-- at least that university had the enlightened attitude that students do drive. When I was in grad school at U Michigan, there was no such thing as a student parking permit. If you lived outside Ann Arbor (which I did), you could get a commuter permit which allowed you to park in commuter lots (over at the basketball arena/ football stadium) and take a bus to campus. That or you fed meters. Most of us fed meters (the professors made sure there was a break after 2 hours, otherwise we'd all walk out to feed our meters). The parking rules were enforced by the city, not the campus which made appealing tickets impossible.
I know several chapters that treat parking permits for the house separately from room pick- they are like gold!.
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