Overview

There are 1,283 parking spaces in 22 parking areas on the Lewis & Clark campus. Certain parking areas are reserved for staff parking, while most other parking is available for commuting students and visitors on a first-come-first-serve basis. Two parking areas are reserved for law students. Some parking spaces are reserved for visitors.

Parking permits are required in campus parking lots Monday through Friday, 7am to 7pm, during the fall and spring semesters. Parking is also enforced during summer sessions at the South Campus (Graduate School of Education) and the Law School due to the limited number of parking spaces in those areas.

Enforcement of parking regulations is carried out during weekdays from 7am to 7pm. Enforcement is staffed by part time student workers. Shuttle bus services are contracted out to a private transportation services company.

The Transportation and Parking Division, under the Department of Facilities Services, serves as staff for the Lewis & Clark Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee. The Associate Vice President of Facilities sits as Chair of the Committee. There are a total of 14 Committee Members, which include staff, faculty, and students. The Committee reviews monthly operations reports, budget status, and various transportation and parking policy issues, making related recommendations to the Vice President for Business & Finance/Treasurer from time to time.

The College provides a proactive alternative transportation program, which includes free shuttle service to areas of Portland, discounted carpool parking, discounted TriMet bus passes, free bicycle parking racks and lockers, and a neighborhood parking enforcement program. All of these programs are subsidized out of revenues generated from parking. The College provides on-campus residences for 1,290 students and leases neighborhood housing to students, faculty, and staff. This reduces the commute trips to the campus. The College pays 100% of the cost of monthly bus passes purchased by students, faculty and staff, while selling them at a 50% discount. Lewis & Clark has been officially recognized by TriMet for leadership in progressive commute options.

The budgetary goal of the Transportation and Parking Program is a balanced budget, whereby revenues generated are adequate to pay for operating costs and retirement of debt for construction costs. Revenue sources are parking permits (86%), TriMet bus passes (6%) and parking citations (8%). The largest operating cost is for shuttle services, which is 42% of the total budget. The cost of debt retirement for the new South Campus Parking Lot and the Lower Griswold parking lot is 20% of the budget. The cost for administrative and operating staff is 17% of the budget.

The cost to the College for bus passes is 11.4% of the total budget.

Under a Conditional Use Master Plan Agreement with the City of Portland, the College tracks its progress under a Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDM) component. The TDM is updated annually and submitted to the City Planning Department. Of primary concern in the TDM are fee based parking and a proactive alternative transportation program. Without a successful alternative transportation program the College would need to double the number of off-street parking spaces.

2010-11 Transportation and Parking Program

Lewis & Clark transportation and parking information may be viewed at lclark.edu/offices/transportation_and_parking. For inquiries and requests concerning transportation and parking at Lewis & Clark, please call the Transportation and Parking Office at 503-768-7857 or email parking@lclark.edu. Additional program information is available in the Lewis & Clark Transportation and Parking Regulations, which may also be viewed at lclark.edu/offices/transportation_and_parking/regulations/.

Alternative Modes of Transportation

The goal of the transportation and parking program is to meet the transportation and parking needs of the community. There must be a balance between off-street parking and alternative transportation. If all students, faculty, and staff were to commute by single occupant vehicle every day, the campus parking supply would not be adequate.

Alternative transportation serves to significantly reduce traffic and parking congestion, to improve air quality, and to contribute to a healthy community environment. The College is committed to alternative transportation goals and strongly encourages it for daily commuting to the campus.

To facilitate alternative transportation in the 2010-11 academic year, the transportation and parking program will include:

• Free shuttle bus services between the campus and downtown Portland.
• Monthly TriMet bus passes discounted by 50%
• Carpool parking permits discounted by 50%
• Convenient carpool parking spaces reserved from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
• Secure bicycle parking racks located throughout the campus
• Bicycle carrier racks on Lewis & Clark shuttle and TriMet buses
• Improved, landscaped pedestrian and bicycle pathways throughout the campus
• Parking permit fees for funding alternative transportation

TriMet Bus Service to the Campus

The #39 bus route runs between the Campus, the Burlingame transit center, and Safeway on SW Barbur Boulevard, and the Hillsdale neighborhood. The connecting bus routes at the Burlingame Transit Center are numbers 1, 12, 64, and 94. The Connecting routes in Hillsdale are numbers 44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 61, and 64. All of these routes may be viewed on TriMet’s web page at trimet.org.

Discounted TriMet Bus Passes

The College will continue to provide a 50% subsidy for the costs of monthly All Zone and Two-Zone TriMet Bus Passes purchased for use by students, faculty, and staff of the College. Daily trip tickets are not subsidized. Fees are as follows:

• Two zone pass: $38.50 per month
• All-Zone pass: $44.00 per month
• All Zone Trip Ticket: $23.00 per book of 10
• 2 Zone Trip Ticket: $20.00 per book of 10

Monthly TriMet bus passes are sold to faculty and staff by pre-tax monthly payroll deduction. This can be arranged by contacting the campus transportation and parking office. Students may purchase monthly bus passes and trip tickets on weekdays at the Student and Departmental Account Services office from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, the Campus Safety Office from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm and the Law School Business office from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Bus route planning assistance is available on TriMet’s web site and may be viewed at trimet.org.

TriMet bus schedule brochures are available at the Campus Safety Office, the student lounge at the Templeton Student Center, and at the Law School Reception Desk.

Subsidized Bus Pass Policy

The Lewis & Clark subsidized TriMet bus pass purchase policy is as follows:

• Only Lewis & Clark students, faculty, and staff are authorized to purchase and use subsidized monthly bus passes and trip tickets. Use of the pass by family, friends, or associates is a violation of this policy and is grounds for disqualification from future purchases of subsidized bus passes.
• Only one (1) subsidized monthly bus pass purchase for each Lewis & Clark student, faculty member, or staff member is permitted.
• Those who purchase subsidized TriMet bus passes and trip tickets are prohibited from also purchasing a semester parking pass.

Metro Van Pool

New incentives are available to support vanpools in the Portland, Oregon region. Contact information and links for vanpool services.

Driving alone on crowded highways can be an expensive, frustrating experience that increases congestion and pollution. Commuting in a MetroVan vanpool:

• Saves money on car maintenance, fuel and insurance
• Eliminates the stress of driving
• Reduces traffic congestion and air pollution

A vanpool is a group of 5 to 15 people who share their commute. The vanpool travels from home (or a prearranged meeting place) to work, school, or other destinations. Vanpools may be started by groups of commuters or their employers. The MetroVan vanpool program coordinates vanpool services for commuters who travel into the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region for work or school.

Vanpool incentives help commuters “Drive less. Save more.”

Vanpooling with a MetroVan can cost a quarter of what you would pay to drive alone! MetroVan helps make vanpooling even more economical with a new incentive program that pays for 50% of the basic monthly van lease cost, not including fuel. Passengers split the remaining costs. Monthly costs per rider, including fuel, are $60 to $95 for a 30-mile roundtrip, compared to $266 a month to drive alone.

To qualify for a MetroVan incentive, the vanpool must:

• Travel to a destination in the Portland metropolitan area,
• Originate at least ten miles from the destination or travel through a congested corridor,
• Use one of MetroVan’s vanpool providers, and
• Maintain a minimum of five participants, including the driver, three or more days a week.

Reduce your stress

According to surveys, most workers believe their commute is the most stressful part of their workday. It’s no wonder when the average commuter spends eight hours each week behind the wheel of a car, the equivalent of working one extra day per week. In contrast, vanpool riders can relax, read the newspaper, work on their laptop, or just take a nap. There are fewer worries about traffic, vehicle reliability or getting to work on time. And vanpool riders travel with the satisfaction that they are doing their part to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

Emergency Ride Home

If a family emergency occurs before it is time for your vanpool to return home, then your ride is only a phone call away. MetroVan provides vanpool participants a free emergency ride home in a cab.

Current vanpool routes and schedules

There may already be a MetroVan vanpool that meets your commute needs.

For more information, call 503-813-7566 or send e-mail to rto@metro.dst.or.us. The hearing impaired may call TDD 503-797-1804.

Parking Permit Fees

A list of campus parking fees is as follows:

Student	$165.00 per semester
Student Carpool	$82.50 per semester
Staff	$41.25 per month (8 payroll deductions)
Motorcycle	$27.50 per semester
Daily parking passes	$4.00 maximum 7 am to 7 pm; $2.00 after 4 pm
Guest and Vendor Permit	No Charge
Semester Permit Replacement	$10.00

Purchase of Parking Permits

• Semester parking permits are sold at Student and Departmental Account Services on the lower level of the Templeton Student Center. Law students may also purchase semester parking permits at the Law School Business Office. Payments by cash or check are accepted. Payment may also be made by debit card at Student and Departmental Account Services only. Credit cards are not accepted. Purchase of staff parking permits is by pre-tax monthly payroll deduction from September through April and arranged through the Transportation & Parking Office.
• Vehicles must be pre-registered online in order to purchase semester parking permits or daily parking passes. All vehicles parked on the campus should be registered to avoid parking citations and fines. Vehicles must be registered on line at www.thepermitstore.com Please contact the Transportation and Parking Office (503 768 7857) for assistance.
• Daily parking pass dispensing machines are provided for visitors, students, faculty, and staff. Daily parking pass dispensing machines are located in the Upper Griswold, Lower Griswold, Law School, and South Campus parking lots.

Carpool Parking

To reduce parking demand on the campus, Lewis & Clark encourages students, faculty, and staff to carpool. Carpooling contributes to improved air quality and reduces traffic, noise, and frustration associated with competition for limited parking spaces. The success of the carpool program is a benefit to all of the College community. Carpool applications are available online (link to carpool application). Applications are also available at the Student and Departmental Account Services Office and the Campus Safety Office.

Conveniently located parking spaces are reserved for carpools from 7 am to 10 am, Monday though Friday. Qualification criteria for carpool permits are shown in the campus Transportation and Parking Regulations.

Neighborhood Parking Adjacent to Campus Prohibited:

• Under a Conditional Use Master Plan Agreement with the city of Portland, Lewis & Clark is required to monitor and enforce a College parking regulation prohibiting college parking in the surrounding residential neighborhoods. Signs are not posted for this College parking regulation. The fine for this violation is $40.00 with a 35% increase for successive fines throughout the academic year.
• Parking of commuter vehicles owned and/or operated by staff, faculty, and students is prohibited in neighborhoods adjacent to the College. This does not apply to vehicles of students, faculty, and staff who are residents in the neighborhoods and park on their own residential street. The College requires proof of residence.
• Vehicles receiving neighborhood parking citations issued by the college will be subject to fines. Unregistered vehicles that have received neighborhood parking citations are subject to immobilization or towing if found parked on the campus.

Parking Area Designations and Guidelines

Commuter, Visitors and Resident Parking Areas:

• Unreserved parking areas are open to vehicles that display student commuter and resident, staff, and visitor parking permits.
• Certain parking areas are reserved for visitors, staff, or law student permit parking, as designated by posted signs and/or pavement markings.
• Appropriate parking permits must be displayed in all reserved areas or vehicles will be subject to parking citations and fines.

Reserved Parking for Disabled Persons:

Reserved parking spaces for disabled persons are provided on the Fir Acres Campus, the Law School, and the South Campus. Vehicles parked in parking spaces reserved for disabled persons are required to display disabled persons parking permits issued by the State in which the vehicle is registered. In addition to display of a State-issued permit, either a semester parking permit or a daily parking pass must also be displayed. The Campus Safety Office will provide personal assistance to disabled persons in accessing facilities anywhere on the campus.

Daily Parking Pass Dispensing Machines:

Daily parking pass dispensing machines are provided for visitors, students, faculty, and staff. Daily parking pass dispensing machines are located in the Upper Griswold, Lower Griswold, Law School, and South Campus parking lots.

Reserved designations apply for all daily passes; i.e., students may not park in spaces reserved for staff, staff may not park in spaces reserved for visitors, etc.

Vehicles parked in the Law Student reserved area that display machine-issued passes must also display Law Student Vehicle IDs, which are available to Law Students at no charge in the Law School business office.

The vehicle license plate number must be written in ink on machine-issued daily passes, or the vehicle will be subject to a parking citation and fine.

Visitor, students, and staff may park in the following areas:

• Upper Griswold (upper terrace for Law Students only 7 am to 2 pm, Mon. – Thurs.)
• Lower Griswold
• Fir Acres - unmarked parking spaces on the north periphery
• Forest/Hartzfeld
• Campus Exit drive Road at SW Comus and SW Palatine Hill Road (after Noon)
• O’Dell
• Stewart
• Howard
• Copeland
• Huston Ball Field (closed from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am on weekdays from October 1 through April 1)
• South Campus (parking loop area west of old lot)

Reserved Visitor parking is located in the following areas:

• Campus Safety
• Law School
• South Campus
• Lower Templeton
• Facilities Services parking lot
• Facilities road on east side of Fir Acres Campus

Reserved Parking for staff and faculty is located in the following areas:

• Fir Acres
• Lower Templeton
• Law School
• South Campus (old lot)
• McAfee
• Facilities Road (east side of Fir Acres Campus - 7 am to Noon

South Campus Parking:

Parking is enforced on the South Campus from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. The north section of the old South Campus parking lot will be reserved for vehicles with staff permits until noon on weekdays. The south section of the old lot is reserved for staff permits until 1:30 pm on weekdays. Vehicles that display students, visitors, faculty, and staff parking permits are authorized to park in the new loop parking lot on the South Campus, west of the old lot. Parking is not enforced on the South Campus on weekends.

Reserved Parking in the Law School Parking Lot:

The Law School parking lot provides reserved parking for the following:

• Faculty and staff permit parking
• 3rd and 4th year law student permit parking
• Visitor permit parking
• Motorcycle permit parking

Parking Areas Reserved for Law Students:

Certain parking spaces are reserved in the Law School parking lot for 3rd/4th year Law Students from 7 am to 7 pm on weekdays. The upper terrace of the Upper Griswold parking lot is reserved for all Law Student permit parking from 7 am to 2 pm Monday through Thurday. Staff, CAS Students, Graduate Students, and visitors are not permitted to park in the areas reserved for Law Student parking.

Vehicles must display Law Student parking ID tags in the areas reserved for Law Students if parked with machine-issued daily parking passes. The business office at the Law School issues Law Student ID parking tags, free of charge. The ID tag must be displayed on the driver’s side of the dash board. The license number of the vehicle must be recorded in ink on the ID tag upon issuance in the business office. ID tags are valid for the full academic year. Vehicle ID tags for 3rd/4th year Law Students will be distinct from vehicle ID tags for 1st /2nd year Law Students.

Motorcycle Parking:

Motorcycles parked on the campus must purchase parking permits. Semester parking permit decals for motorcycles may be purchased at the Student and Departmental Account Services Office and the Law School Business Office for $55.00 per year. Motorcycles must park in areas reserved for motorcycle parking spaces. Motorcycles are not permitted to park in spaces for four-wheel vehicles.

Service Courts:

Service vehicle access areas, referred to as “service courts,” are adjacent to some of the buildings on the campus and are designated for Facilities Services vehicles, service contractors, and emergency vehicle parking only. Service court parking enforcement regulations are as follows:

• Vendor parking permits, available at the Campus Safety Office, are required to park in service courts.
• Staff, faculty, or students loading or unloading class-related materials must display a vendor permit. Vehicles will otherwise be subject to parking citations. These areas are not to be used for short term or all-day employee parking.
• Vehicle may park only while in process of loading or unloading.
• Unauthorized vehicles in service courts are subject to citations and fines. They will also be subject to immobilization or towing at the owner’s expense if they interfere with vendor parking and/or if repeat offenders.

Satellite (off-campus) Parking Areas

St. Mark and Mt. Carmel Church parking lots may be available for special event parking on an event-by-event basis. They are not available for daily parking of students, staff, or faculty vehicles

The Huston parking lot will be closed to student and staff parking all day when baseball and softball games are scheduled.

Parking Citation Appeals

To be considered, appeals of parking citations issued on the Lewis & Clark  campus must be submitted online at http://www.lclark. edu/dept/parking/ appealform.html within 10 days of the issue date of the parking citation.

Immobilization (Booting) and Towing of Vehicles

• • Any vehicle that has received 2 or more parking citations will be subject to immobilization or towing. A vehicle may be impounded without notice and at the owner’s expense if it is parked in violation as shown on page 15 of the Lewis & Clark Campus Parking Regulations. More details on impoundment are shown in the Lewis & Clark Transportation and Parking Regulations, which can be viewed on the transportation and parking web page at (http://www.lclark. edu/dept/parking/ objects/ParkingRegulations. pdf.
• A $35.00 booting fee will be charged in addition to the parking penalty.
• Payment of towing fees charged by a towing company is the responsibility of the vehicle owner/driver.
• For removal of a vehicle-booting device or for towing information, please contact the Office of Transportation and Parking or the Campus Safety Office weekdays from 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• After 5:00 pm on weekdays or during weekends, please contact the Campus Safety Office for boot removal or vehicle retrieval, if towed.

Parking Violation Fine Schedule

Parking violations of the same regulation incurred within the same academic year increase by 35% for each successive violation up to 5 violations. The parking fine escalation schedule is shown in the Lewis & Clark Parking Regulations, which can be viewed online at http://www.lclark. edu/dept/parking/ objects/ParkingRegulations. pdf.