To whom it may concern,
I can't believe that someone hasn't written this letter yet, or made a petition to fix this. What the heck are you doing in the parking services office? Like yes, I get it, it's your job to give out these tickets and to distribute the passes, but good gracious someone needs to fix this system.
First, don't get me wrong. I love Auburn, it's where I spend most of my year. Therefore, I chose wisely when it comes to schools and cities to live in. But please change this parking situation at the school. I live in an apartment off campus and applied for preferred commuter parking, for obvious reasons. Then I get an email saying that I got the pleasure of C parking. C parking. I'm sorry but where is C parking? Oh, the parking over passed The Hill? Oh okay, and you're charging me $80 to have to park at 6:30 in the morning to reserve a spot? My first class starts at 8.
Second, most of my friends are living off-campus and all of us applied for off-campus parking. No one got PC parking! If I can name 25 people that applied for PC parking and got stuck with C parking... then who got PC parking?! And wasn't that the reason that ya'll put Village parking in the parking deck? To open more commuter parking? Then why does nobody have that parking pass?
Third thing, the Village parking deck. That is the stupidest decision ever. To convert the parking lot in front of the village into parking for off-campus and then make everyone in the Village park in a parking deck that's a hike away. Also, almost everyone that lives in the Village is in a sorority, that is so dangerous to make girls walk to their cars in a dark parking deck far away. Who thought this was a good idea?
Next thing, yes I understand that we have a lot of faculty and staff here at Auburn but there is no way that they need that much parking. I feel like everywhere I turn there's A or B parking everywhere. I feel like I'm on campus more than this faculty is, they don't need two parking decks and five parking lots.
Parking tickets. What the heck is with those? You don't give us enough spots to park in and then ticket me when I park in a loading zone. Where am I supposed to park? Narnia? If I spend $120 on an on campus parking pass, I expect to have a parking spot and not have a parking ticket on my car the next morning. Also, be consistent with your ticketing. Either follow the rules or be cool and don't follow them, but don't be wishy-washy by deciding to not give a ticket and then ticketing someone else a different day because you feel like being a jerk. We all have bad days, but not everyone is allowed to take it out on others. Either ticket everyone in a loading zone, or don't ticket anyone. Don't play the lottery with us.
Maybe instead of adding all of these apartment complexes that no one is going to live in, you should make more parking lots. Auburn is already taking all of my money with my out of state tuition, I don't need parking services overcharging my parking passes and then charging me because I parked wrong.
Sincerely,
Indebted and Angry Auburn Student
