Parking & Transportation Services

2. Parking & Transportation Services Boldly Planning for Greatness Vision: Parking and Transportation Services will be a respected industry leader responsible for creating a campus wide parking and transportation system that is responsive to customer needs, self-sustaining, efficient, environmentally responsible and equitable in the management of its resources.

3. Values: Professionalism Communication Integrity Accountability Innovation Teamwork Environmental Sustainability Financial Responsibility

4. Mission: Parking & Transportation Services supports the University’s mission by maximizing campus access through financially and environmentally sustainable practices, superior customer service, innovation and professional management of parking facilities and transportation resources.

5. The Changing Face of Campus Approximately 300 D spaces were lost in 2010 with the construction of the Business Leadership Building and Highland Street Garage. 104 additional D spaces will be lost in the next six weeks. UNT will could lose approximately 1,000+ additional spaces from inventory in the next 18months The changing campus footprint necessitates review and reallocation of parking inventory for equitable management and to maximize this limited resource.

6. Two immediate events compounding the need to make changes to the parking operation: Highland St. will close from Ave. C to Welch for water line repairs. Parking will be removed and not returned. Fleet of 18 new, larger shuttle buses will be arriving to our campus

7. 1. Highland Street Repairs 84 D’s 17 Visitor 5 Disability 22 Meters 5 Service 4 CDL 1 15 minute/unloading Total Losses: 138

8. Lot 24 Resident parking will be removed from Lot 24 This row of parking will be zoned: Visitor Disability A spaces will be added to accommodate changes from other areas of campus Resident parking can easily shift to Lots 27 and 7.

9. Lot 24

10. Champion Buses begin arriving in May 2012 The buses are longer, wider and taller than the buses they are replacing Routes must be adjusted to accommodate the decreased maneuverability All routes utilizing Highland St. must change 20 D spaces on Mulberry (South side only), between Ave. D and Ave. C must be removed

12. Goal: Maximize Resources/Improve Customer Service Objective: Consolidate, group and reduce reserved “A” parking spaces to maximize resources and improve customer service We can manage our parking inventory much better than we do now!

13. Reserved, single occupant designation is the most inefficient use of parking inventory. Why? Total Number F/S Members 3,549 Total Number F/S D&A Spaces 2,525 Total Number F/S D’s 1,829 Total Number F/S A’s 696 So……… 28% of our Parking is allotted to 20% of our F/S 72% of our Parking is allotted to 80% of our F/S 2,853 Employees are left sharing 1,829 D parking spaces

14. We MUST replace/increase D parking We MUST reduce the total number of single occupant A spaces

15. Current A space permit holders will be accommodated in a reserved lot/area Permits, initially, will not be oversold. Occupancy rates taken during peak demand will determine if additional permits can be issued… If a minimum of 10 spaces are available at 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, etc. five additional permits can be offered. Then the process begins again until the overall occupancy rate for the lot is 85 to 90%

16. Pilot program for lots 4, 5 and 26 • “A” spaces in these three lots will be combined into lot 4 – Permits will not be space specific • “D” spaces will be added to 5 and 26 • Health and Career Services spaces will remain in lot 5 • Visitor spaces will remain in lot 26 • Visitor spaces in lot 4 will be moved to Chestnut Street

17. Lot 5 Lot 26 Lot 4

18. Current Configuration: D Spaces: 271 A Spaces: 130 Number of Patient/Career Center Spaces, Disability Spaces and Visitor Spaces will not change. Visitor spaces in Lot 4 will be relocated to the Ave. D. Proposed Configuration with Customer Service Improvements: D Spaces: 283 A Spaces: 118 Visitor spaces will be visible from the information booth Visitors are much less likely to inadvertently park in an A space for a $125 parking fine.

19. Mixed use lots are confusing, frustrating and a great source for customer service issues. i.e. Clients to Career Services miss the parking set aside for them and park in a reserved space. That citation is $125. In addition to frustrating the individual who parked improperly, you have a reserved permit holder who has no place to park. This is a practice PTS would like to avoid whenever possible. We can provide better Customer Service.

20. Lot 6 Finally Reverts back to Lot 8 Lot 8/9 will become Lot 9 and will be zoned for D parking. Four Hall Director spaces will not be affected. Current A space holders will be accommodated in Lot 8 (Lot 6),Lot 4 or Lot 24. Unsold spaces are removed. Net gain of D parking spaces: 65

21. Lot 8 This change will also help alleviate concerns regarding A permit holders parking in D spaces Lot 9

22. Lot 50 A spaces in Lot 50 will be consolidated and Renumbered with the unsold spaces being removed. All current A permit holders will be accommodated. Three spaces in this lot will be the site of 2 EV Charging Stations Net gain of D Spaces is 50!

23. Summary: Total number of D spaces gained: 23 (Much better than losing 104) Total number of A spaces eliminated 108 Current A permit holders will be accommodated prior to any additional A permits being sold D permit holders will not be the sole group to absorb parking losses Parking distribution will be more equitable Parking Resources will be more efficiently utilized

24. Questions? Comments? Thank you, very much

25. UNT Parking & Transportation Services Presented by: Ginny Griffin Interim Director Spring 2012