Parking
Guide
Penn State Intercom......April
24, 2003
Residence hall students to
gain
core campus parking
this fall
Many of the parking changes taking place on the University Park campus will immediately affect students. In the short term, some will be inconvenienced at the end of this semester. However, when they return to campus next fall, students will have new parking options in the core area of campus.
Lot 80 relocation
Effective midnight May 2, all student vehicles must be moved out of Lot 80 across from East Halls and relocated to either Lot 83, Lot 83 North or Stadium West (the red commuter lot just west of Beaver Stadium). Valid green student permits in the G59 series will be authorized in these designated lots through the end of spring semester. This move is occurring due to the anticipated start of the East sub-campus construction project on May 3.
Core parking spaces
Summer parking for residence hall students will be restricted to Lots 83 and 83N. Effective next fall, student parking permits will be sold for specific parking areas adjacent to East, Pollock and South Halls. If possible, a limited number of parking permits will be sold to West Halls students for use in the Red A parking lot west of North Atherton Street. These student core parking spaces are replacement parking areas for the loss of Lot 80.
The new lots
will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis based on residence location.
East Halls and North Halls students will be offered the core parking around
East 
Halls. Pollock, Center
and South Halls residents will be offered the areas adjacent to McKean
and Pollock Roads.
The Nittany Apartment lots will be managed by the Parking Office and sold as student core parking spaces. West Halls students will be offered a limited number of parking permits for the Red A parking lot. These lots will be assigned at a maximum assignment rate of 100 percent, and except for Red A, will be reserved 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the designated student permit.
Sale of these spaces for fall will begin with the student registration application mailed in July to all University Park students except freshmen, who are not permitted to purchase student storage parking permits for campus. The Parking Office will begin the sale of the reserved lots at that time.
Beginning about July 1, eligible students will be allowed to go online to reserve a parking permit through a link on the Parking Office Web page at http://www.transportation.psu.edu/. A postcard with instructions will be sent to all students providing full details on the change in the registration process.
Commuter parking
Effective this summer, the cost of a commuter parking permit will decrease from $90 per semester to $15 for both summer sessions; $30 for fall or spring 2003/2004; or $50 for fall and spring. The commuter lots are not available for overnight or storage parking.
Commuter permits are valid in core parking lots after 4 p.m. on weekdays through 7:30 am the following morning, and all day Saturday and Sunday. A few core lots are designated for faculty/staff permits only, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These are identified by sign at the entrance to each lot.
The campus bus service provides frequent service seven days a week from the commuter lots to campus. Changes are being made to the system for fall to help alleviate previous capacity issues.