What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas
I go to a big school in a small town. I want to know if this is something the students could sue over or not. Long story short. The students at this school are experiencing problems. The ratio for students to parking is said to be 4:1 or higher. Parking is not just the problem its also the amount of tickets everyone has gotten from these spots.
Ive talk with faculty and they are complaining but wont voice their opinions publicly because they could lose their job. Ive check the website and their is no official agreement or rules regarding the lot usage or regulation. We all know that the parking lot fines and fees is this schools main source of income. Is there some law governing this?
My problems with this is that the parking lots are irregularity located and in some cases not big enough to fit many cars and are far away from campus. Another problem is that there is no parking and this takes away for what I am paying for. If I cant find a parking spot after 20mins of driving around I simply go home. In this area it is so bad that all the students park on side streets and each road is packed with cars making it an insurance nightmare.
Our school recently got audited and found that they were $23 million in the hole. They easily made there money back with tickets. Even when disputing a ticket they decline without making a statement as to why they declined a case.
When inquiring about the number of parking spots I was given the run around to different places who all claimed they didn't know how many parking spaces the college has.
So without doing a freedom of information act I counted each parking space myself available to students.
The total # of students at the college according to 2014 is 36,198. The # of parking spaces for both General and Premium parking is roughly: 2,686 with 1,569. I wasn't able to get how many of those students drive cars so I just did some estimations based on percentages.
20%= 2.6:1
25%= 3.3:1
30%= 4:1
Assuming that everyone has at least a premium permit which allows them to park at both premium and general parking slots. Id say its worth an investigation since the college's 800 million budget poorly covers parking maintenance and their negligence regarding ticket disputes.
Thanks for reading and your input.
I go to a big school in a small town. I want to know if this is something the students could sue over or not. Long story short. The students at this school are experiencing problems. The ratio for students to parking is said to be 4:1 or higher. Parking is not just the problem its also the amount of tickets everyone has gotten from these spots.
Ive talk with faculty and they are complaining but wont voice their opinions publicly because they could lose their job. Ive check the website and their is no official agreement or rules regarding the lot usage or regulation. We all know that the parking lot fines and fees is this schools main source of income. Is there some law governing this?
My problems with this is that the parking lots are irregularity located and in some cases not big enough to fit many cars and are far away from campus. Another problem is that there is no parking and this takes away for what I am paying for. If I cant find a parking spot after 20mins of driving around I simply go home. In this area it is so bad that all the students park on side streets and each road is packed with cars making it an insurance nightmare.
Our school recently got audited and found that they were $23 million in the hole. They easily made there money back with tickets. Even when disputing a ticket they decline without making a statement as to why they declined a case.
When inquiring about the number of parking spots I was given the run around to different places who all claimed they didn't know how many parking spaces the college has.
So without doing a freedom of information act I counted each parking space myself available to students.
The total # of students at the college according to 2014 is 36,198. The # of parking spaces for both General and Premium parking is roughly: 2,686 with 1,569. I wasn't able to get how many of those students drive cars so I just did some estimations based on percentages.
20%= 2.6:1
25%= 3.3:1
30%= 4:1
Assuming that everyone has at least a premium permit which allows them to park at both premium and general parking slots. Id say its worth an investigation since the college's 800 million budget poorly covers parking maintenance and their negligence regarding ticket disputes.
Thanks for reading and your input.
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