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by NATHAN BOWLING
Intern News Reporter
Appalachian State University plans to follow through with four separate construction projects by fall 2009, ending with the temporary loss of over 130 staff and faculty parking spots.
For students, there are no current plans to expand parking for the 2009-10 academic year. The Parking & Traffic Department is doing their best to keep prices reasonable for students.
 A parking attendant places a ticket on a car temporarily parked in Stadium Lot shortly before the lot opens to the general public Tuesday. Photo by Tommy Penick |
“We will do
whatever we can to hold firm to our fees,” Barry D. Sauls, director of
Parking & Traffic said in relation to the economic recession. “No
sense in adding insult to pain.”
The
Presbyterian Church parking lot, located directly behind Plemmons
Student Union, will become the new site of the Reich College of
Education building.
This lot
will cause 70 staff and faculty parking spots to be lost and will not
be returned to inventory until after construction finishes.
“We will be losing those spots,” Sauls said. “But we have daily spots at Legends Parking Lot.”
The Holmes Convocation Center is set to expand its parking lot over the summer to include an additional 51 spaces by fall.
“There
is just not ample parking,” Allison D. Kemp-Sullivan, university
engineer and director of the expansion project said. “We are just
adding spaces.”
The project calls for the combination of two existing parking lots on the west end of the convocation center.
The
complex, which is located on the corner of Depot Street and Rivers
Street, will lose its 26-space parking lot during the construction of a
new broadcasting center.
The spaces are to remain obsolete for at least a year, Sauls said.
According to faa.appstate.edu, the broadcasting complex is scheduled to open in 2010.
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