From Chapman University
If there's a single topic to create persistent administrative headaches on any city campus in the country, well, of course, it's parking. Though the school insists it has made peace with neighbors and the city of Orange and that it has sufficient supply to meet current demand, officials -- citing environmental, cost and efficiency reasons -- also already are responding to concerns (complaints) and revising their parking plans in a very public way. A key, new and novel aspect, with details to be announced, will be paying incentives to those who take trains or buses and don't drive to school, thus reducing parking demand. They'll introduce new electronic devices to improve access, security and enforcement. And, of course, resorting to the latest hot regulatory tool out of Washington bureaucrats, the school has asked its Economic Science Institute to help devise lotteries for purchasers to bid for peak period spots in the most prime, central parking lots. Phew!
Lotteries, Technology, Incentives? It's Not National Health Care. It's Campus Parking...
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