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well as bring up issues directly to the city
council.
“The better things flow, the more people
want to come." she said.
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Students who park at Campus Comer to
avoid purchasing a permit and park closer
to class will have to pay up or get in more
exercise when June arrives.
The Campus Comer Association has
voted and approved plans to change
met . _ .
ing. This change is scheduled to occur
around the first week of June.
‘It’s approved and done," Helen Wolney,
CCA president and owner of the Apothem
said “The new placards for the commer-
cial zones 1 am expecting the first week of occupy a space‘for
June."
The new parking zones will be on the
east side of Asp Avenue, from the comer
to Aisle 7. That will be commercial parking
before 10 a.m. The other spots will be on
Buchanan Street and will be commercial
parking only from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.. Wolney
said.
The CCA is also doing curb and sidewalk
repairs for the next two weeks. Wolney
said.
‘Hopefully that will open up a few more
spots," she said.
of money to the university every semester,
and became 1 happen to have a class when
everyone else does, it seems like 1 ha\<
to i»ark just south of Edmond and run to
class."
Wolney said the new commercial park
------> in the best interest of keep-
ing Campus Comer flourishing and avail
!, for i-ommercial parking," he said. “The al.lefor students.
s university can supply their own parking for
their own people."
Cojeen said numerous students enter his
only shop daily requesting tokens because they
hour, and then they parked in the lot that requires a token from
a merchant to exit.
Students are not sure about the new
measures either.
“I understand that they don’t want stu-
dents parking there, but that seems really
inconvenient" social work senior Whitney
Stults said.
Most understand the motives behind the
commercial zones, but they also 'hink the
meters are wonderful alternatives to park-
ing on campus.
Tn a way, 1 can justify not allowing
students to park there, because it detracts
from business and doesn’t allow custom-
ers to park in front of the stores," musk-
education junior Nathan Helvey said. “But
this problem could be solved if there were
“Employees and students alike have full adequate parking spaces around campus
change is beneficial.
“Yes, you're going to have student park- i
ing problems, but students are custom-
ers too’ Tess Barton said. Barton Ls the
shop coordinator for Cookies-N-Cards, a
manicurist for Walker Ts Salon and an art
senior.
“ Are they being more focused on keeping
students out, or drawing students here?"
»"*■ ^Canon. owner <X Suzys Create
said that students taking up metered spots
has been a problem, but not as big as
employees of the stores parking in them.
Canon says that students may <
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move, usually after a class lasting 50 min-
utes. Employees, on the other hand, occupy
that space all day.
Tn true reality, students can cause some
hold up, but they are not that big of a prob-
lem," he said. “An employee parking on a
meter will lose a thousand dollars a day
in revenue for that store and the employer
an hour of work time because they are
off plugging the meters. There Ls just not
enough employee parking."
Wolney said that nothing is currently in
the works regarding employee parking, but
every business on Campus Comer can go
•k there and to the CCA meetings and vote on issues, as
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use of the Presbyterian church parking lot for students and the of the student
at what 1 think is a very reasonable price," pennits were; tow
Wolney said. ‘It may be a little farther to
walk, but we need to all work together
down here."
Chris Cojeen. who has worked at Tinas
Guitars for more than 20 years, approves of
the new commercial zones.
“It doesn't affect us personally, because ing spaces are
we have a lot, but the whole strip is here ' - -
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