Editor,
I am on the College of San Mateo campus five days a week, and parking on Monday and Wednesday mornings is nearly impossible. On a recent morning, I arrived at the lower Hillsdale parking lot to find that Solar City and Go Pro have now been given more than half of that lower lot for their exclusive use. At 9:45 a.m., there were precious few spaces left for student use and by 1 p.m., when I returned to the lot, dozens of students had been ticketed (they were courtesy warnings today).
When taxpayers approved the two college district bonds, they assumed the money was going to improve facilities for students, not to build parking lots for private companies.
The entire north parking area at CSM has been closed for renovation. Why would CSM, then, take limited parking space away from students, give it to private companies and then ticket students when there is nowhere to park?
No student should have to pay a parking ticket as long as Solar City and Go Pro have priority parking over students.
Donna Bischoff
San Mateo
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