Ahmed Ahmed
Clipper Writer.
Students and staff are once again complaining about the lack of parking spots and while Campus Security has some new solutions, the Everett Police Department, by adding new two-hour limits on some parking spots, is causing problems.Nafeesa Imtiaz is one of many students who says they have had a hard time circling the college parking lot, searching for a parking spot. The college should find a solution for this problem, she says.The problem has been exacerbated by new two-hour parking signs on some streets around the college. Sergeant Jim Phillips, from the Everett Police department, said the zoning had changed to allow residents more access to park in front of their own homes.Stacie Sabourin, assistant manager of Lona Vista, the complex on the other side of Whitehorse Hall, says parking problems not only annoy students but EvCC's neighbors.Sabourin says she has a hard time preventing students from parking their cars in the complex's parking spots on a daily basis.Bob Wright, director of Campus Safety and Emergency Management, said parking alternatives are available. Wright said his department has noticed that there are not enough carpool spots, so "we are going to expand the carpool parking spots to be about 36 spots instead of 10 spots."Wright added that students can contact Monica Morgan of the Ride Sharing Person, to find someone from the same neighborhood who has a similar schedule to carpool with.a"Also, we provide bike lockers for those who are requesting them," says Wright, who adds that students can also take advantage of free parking at the Everett Transit center and catch buses that will drop them off right in front off Whitehorse Hall.Darryl Dieter, the director of Institutional Research, and political science instructor said that everyone should share in reducing carbon emissions and look for alternatives to driving.Dieter suggested that the college should raise the price of the parking, which is currently about 45 cents per day, to encourage people to consider alternatives.Parking rates are scheduled to rise in June according to Wright, though by how much is still unknown.
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