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November 11, 2003
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November
11, 2003
Red Mountain faces parking woes
Francesca Anderson
Contributing Writer
The parking lot at the Red Mountain MCC campus has come to look more like
a car sales lot in the past few months. With a limited number of parking
spaces and no designated faculty parking, students and teachers have been
forced to park in the desert landscape and neighboring streets.
Currently 3700 students are enrolled, and numbers are still climbing.
Adjunct faculty member Dr. Bob Kulo said the rise in enrollment is a good
thing, but with that should come an obvious increase in parking spaces.
Kulo said that he has had students late to class as a result of the lack
of parking. However, the lack of student parking is not the only problem;
there is also no designated faculty parking.
Kulo, like other teachers, has been forced to circle the parking lot for
a space.
“It is a privilege to teach at a college; faculty should have a
parking privilege,” said Kulo.
The campus is composed of two separate buildings, the main building and
the original foundation, Acacia Village, with a quarter-mile stretch of
road connecting them.
Those that cannot find parking at one building must park at the other
and walk.
Biology professor David Oakey said, “It would be much more convenient
if they had faculty designated parking at the Red Mountain campus, because
I am often loaded down with teaching materials for class.”
Despite the lack of faculty parking, the only building with parking problems
is Acacia Village.
College safety employee Darrell Kolacek believes that more parking spaces
are necessary but that the problem is not as bad as it seems.
Kolacek monitors the parking lots daily and said that the mornings are
the busiest times; however, “Every day is different, and there is
always a different flow pattern with the traffic.”
College safety officer Les Strickland asserted that more parking is on
the way.
Strickland estimates about 80 parking spaces will be added to the original
parking lot outside of Acacia Village.
Strickland estimated that around mid-November the structure will be complete.
Student Teresa Valencia is looking forward to the additional parking.
“It will be a great relief when the new parking spaces open. I am
sick of spending 15 minutes every morning circling the parking lot for
a space like a vulture,” she said.
However, the additional parking will not bring faculty parking.
Strickland said that as far as he knows, no faculty parking is in the
works, the school administration has yet to see fit to implement it.
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