C-PARK

Chapman’s Plan to Ease Parking Congestion at Peak Times

Coming This Fall 2009!

We’ve listened carefully to feedback and concerns about on-campus parking stated in the annual Student Satisfaction Survey.   Starting this fall, Chapman’s new C-Park plan will begin to address these concerns and make some centralized parking more available, and perhaps even relieve some parking congestion during peak class periods.  It will also provide information we can use to help design an even more effective parking plan in 2010 (possibly as early as spring semester), and to more comprehensively address these issues.

• The C-Park plan aims to start this process by holding an online auction for permits for one of the most central on-campus lots, the Argyros lot. This auction was designed by faculty members of Chapman’s Economic Science Institute. If you bid for and win a permit for the Argyros lot, your opportunity to find a space there during peak periods will be greatly enhanced.  And that’s something that people have been requesting.  While its scope is limited to just over 100 permits, we believe it will provide some overall relief, and it gives us the chance to see the effectiveness of such an auction.
• In addition, for the first time, Chapman will be offering incentives to those who opt to car-pool or take mass transportation (train or bus) to campus! This is another incremental step in reducing demand for the central parking locations and relieving congestion.
• We’re also taking new steps in parking automation by introducing a transponder system in several parking facilities.  This will help improve parking access control and help with both security and enforcement.  In addition, it will help us better understand parking patterns, which will assist us in future C-Park initiatives to further improve the parking system.
• And lastly, for the first time, Reserved spaces – your own personal parking space reserved for you all year – can be purchased by students as well as faculty and staff. Like Argyros, these 50 reserved spaces will be made available via an auction.

The online auction for Reserved spaces will begin on this site August 27^th. This auction is open to all faculty, staff and commuter students.

The online auction for Argyros lot permits will begin on this site September 3^rd. This auction is also open to all faculty, staff and commuter students.

All other parking on campus will remain at flat rates for the year, at prices noted on the 2009/2010 Parking Plan. Visit the Public Safety website to register for parking.

All this is very new, so please bear with us.  We will be working together with you to solve any problems as they come up.  Parking is important to everyone in the Chapman and Orange community, which is why we are trying several different coordinated and incremental approaches to make it better.  We appreciate your patience and look forward to your feedback. 

You can contact us at C-Park@chapman.edu or through the Parking website Contact Page. Your comments will help us as we work together to resolve any issues that may not have been previously considered.