New Parking Policy at Avila
As many people know, the parking
situation at Avila is far from perfect. With a land locked university
surrounded by neighborhoods, it is hard
to make the parking at the university any better. As the year began many
parking tickets were being written all over campus. This is something that was
kind of frustrating for people with the fact that people were parking in the
only places that were open.
Recently however campus safety (the
people who write the parking tickets at Avila) changed the parking policy.
Campus Safety employee, Matt Francois explained the new rules.
“It used to be all you had to do was
meet with Darby after getting multiple tickets and you could get your ticket
situation taken care of. But now you get five or more tickets you get a boot
put on your car and you also have to have a meeting with Darby. It is also 50
dollars to get the boot removed and after the fifth ticket it is an automatic
tow.”
Matt
also stated that there is a positive to this new rule for people that lived on
campus stating, “From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. students can park in any spots on campus
except for the handicap spots.”
Campus safety employee: Matt Francois
Photo
Taken By: Joe Roberts
As you can imagine reactions were mixed with these new rules.
Freshman K.C. Moorman reacted saying, “I don’t like the new rules at all. It’s
unfair. I pay $30,000 a year to go here I should be able to park where I want. We
need more parking spots if they(campus safety) wants to have such strict rules.”
Freshman Ben
Walker stated “I kind of feel like it’s kind of redundant because if you have
four parking tickets that’s kind of embarrassing anyway.”
As the reactions differ, one thing is for sure, people should
strive to stay under four tickets, as the fifth becomes drastically more
expensive.
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