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Philosophy
The philosophy for transportation and parking on the campus has many components. Four of the key philosophical statements include:
- The parking system must provide adequate, reasonably convenient and safe access for all employees, students, and visitors to the campus through coordinated management of parking and transportation resources.
- The parking system should minimize the intrusion of vehicles into campus and keep general vehicular circulation to the campus periphery.
- The parking system must reconcile parking demands with the limitations of land resources and road capacity by eliminating surface lots and building parking garages.
- The parking system must assure that it is self-supporting.
Parking is a significant part of the current campus master plan. In the plan, it was determined that all surface lots on the campus comprise about 85 acres of land. This represents a significant amount of space that can be used for academic and non-academic footprints for the campus. As a result of the discussions of the campus master plan, it was determined that several additional garages must be built on the campus within the next 10 years.
The parking system is self-supporting which means that it must generate its own revenue to support expenses to build and maintain parking operations, lots and garages on the campus and at the Round Rock Higher Education Center. There are three main sources of revenue for the parking system-permit fees, permit violation fees, and parking meter fees. Expenses include the Parking Services operation, debt service payments for parking structures, maintenance of existing parking lots and garages and the creation of new parking lots or garages. A reserve is also maintained for unforeseen parking emergencies and to assist with initial payments for new construction.
Parking permit fees and violation fees must be set at appropriate levels to assure a balanced budget each year. Parking permits are distributed as follows:
- Reserved Permits (75 reserved spaces are available in identified locations around campus)
- Restricted Permits (generally for faculty and staff)
- Staff with annual salaries between $20,000 and $25,000 receive a 25 percent discount on restricted permits
- Staff with annual salaries of less than $20,000, receive a 50 percent discount on restricted permits
- Residence Hall and Apartment Permits
- Perimeter Permits
- Staff with annual salaries between $20,000 and $25,000 receive a 25 percent discount on restricted permits
- Staff with annual salaries less than $20,000, receive a 50 percent discount on restricted permits
Parking Services is committed to keeping costs of parking permits to a minimum; however, with the goals of completing the projects identified in the campus master plan, some increases in fees are anticipated over the next few years.
If there are questions, please contact Stephen Prentice, Assistant Director - Parking Services or Ralph Meyer, Director of University Police, at 512.245.8336.