Campus Parking Additions and Changes Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 10, 2001
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
Campus Parking Additions and Changes Announced
Two new parcels of land will be available for daytime parking this fall for California State University, Chico employees and students.
The new lots are located just east of the railroad tracks adjacent to Orange Street between First Street and Third Street. They will add approximately 113 spaces to the number of available parking spaces on campus.
The new lots will not have lighting and will therefore be available for daytime use only. The parking spaces will be striped 9 feet wide to accommodate larger vehicles. Anyone with a “G” or “F/S” parking decal will be able to park in the new lots.
Glennda Morse, interim director of Facilities Management and Services, said the lots will likely be used for overflow parking, and for drivers with trucks or other large vehicles.
Morse said the long-term disposition of the lots has not been determined. They were purchased initially as the location for a proposed recreation center.
Morse also announced three other changes in parking availability:
• A small gravel lot on the west side of the railroad tracks adjacent to the Facilities Management corporation yard was closed to parking in June. The unstriped lot provided roughly 30 parking spaces. Morse said the railroad requires a fence 20 feet from the tracks, which did not leave enough room to install parking spaces and an entrance and exit lane. The lot is currently being used for storage.
• Approximately 20 parking spaces by the University Stadium on Warner Street will be closed for roughly one month this fall. A contractor will be installing underground utilities on the west side of the stadium parallel to Nettleton Stadium. The Nettleton stadium lot will not be closed during the work.
• Several 20-minute visitor parking spaces will be added to the block of Chestnut Street just southeast of 2nd Street. Morse said the process of adding the spaces will begin once the construction trailers and fencing related to the Bell Memorial Union expansion are removed later this summer.
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