How effective are the new parking permits?

By Estefani Hernandez | Published by Oct. 3, 2018

Finding parking at Kean University has always been a headache. However, Parking Services believes it has found the solution to it all: parking permits.

Kean officials state that the new ePermits system provides ease of registration for students, faculty, and staff, and ease of enforcement for Campus Police.

With the ePermits, you are able to register your vehicle, and your license plate is your permit. Any vehicles who are not registered will first receive a warning, their plates will already be in the system, and if the same vehicle has still not been registered you will receive a fine.

“A vehicle equipped with two License Plate Reader cameras is able to scan license plates in the parking lots and find anyone illegally parked,” said Margaret McCorry, Director of Media Relations. “Through this system, Kean University expects to achieve greater compliance with parking rules.”

Emails have been sent out to remind students and faculty to register their vehicles. Making sure that only Kean approved vehicles are parked in all of the lots. These ePermits do have to renewed every year. These annual passes are valid from September 1 through August 31.

In the Vaughn-Eames parking lot, faculty parking was reduced by 41 spots, creating an equal number of new parking spots for students in that lot stated Kean Officials.

Although Kean Officials state “The system has been running smoothly,” it does not relieve the hectic parking situation that everyone encounters.

Nixie Castello, Senior, has recently transferred to Kean but prepares herself to find parking. Like most students, she tries to show up at least an hour before her class so she is able to find parking.

“I registered my vehicle today, I would get the emails, just always forget,” said Castello. “I figured I didn’t want to get a ticket because someone in my classes said that they were fined already.”

Any violations are subjects to fines. Students are encouraged to obtains an ePermit and can register their vehicles at www.kean.edu/parking

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