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What to expect for CSU on-campus stadium parking, tailgating

The on-campus stadium during construction. (Collegian File photo)

Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 6:32 p.m., Tuesday, April 25 to clarify information. Students living on campus will be required to return their cars to their normal lots by 7 a.m. Monday morning after game day. Students will also be allowed to park in the Research Boulevard parking lot. There will be a shuttle to and from all re-park and residence hall lots on game day weekends. Additionally, the parking lots of Allison, Parmelee, and Westfall Halls will be open to all students re-parking their cars.

When the new on-campus football stadium opens next year, game days will be drastically different than they have been in the past.

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The Associated Students of Colorado State University, the University, and the City of Fort Collins are still working out the final details, and will continue to throughout the summer, but many decisions have already been made. Here is the most up-to-date information available now:

Parking

Re-park Program

Only three of the residence hall parking lots will be open for students to park in on game days, and every other residence hall lot will require residents to move their vehicles.

The re-park program will require residents to move their cars between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on the Friday evening before game day. Students living on campus will be able to move their cars back four hours after the game ends on Saturday, or midnight, whichever comes first. Residents of Westfall, Parmelee and Allison will not be required to move their cars, and any student living on campus will be able to park in those lots on game days.

Students re-parking can move their vehicles to the South College Avenue parking garage, the University Square parking lot and Research Boulevard parking lot. There will be a shuttle to give students who park in the Research Boulevard lot transportation to and from campus. However, they must move their cars from these lots by 7 a.m. Monday morning.

Getting to and from the game

Visitors will have various ways to get to campus for games in anticipation for the 40,000 attendees. Based on game attendance at Hughes Stadium during the 2016 season, 55 percent of the attendees will arrive by vehicle, 25 percent by bicycle or walking and 13 percent by transit. The remaining attendees are expected to be on-campus residents.

For every parking lot, there will be a designated way for attendees to leave campus. Those parking in lots northwest of the stadium will exit onto Shields Street. The parking lots on the far west side of campus will feed into College Avenue. The Lory Student Center, Morgan Library, Braiden Hall and Hartshorn Health Center parking lots will lead to Laurel Street, and those parking in the Lake Street garage will leave campus via Prospect Road.

Visitor Parking

Every parking lot other than the exempted north side residence hall lots will only be available to vehicles with game day parking permits, which will cost $100 for the whole season.

However, that $100 will only cover the parking lots farthest from the stadium, with the closer lots restricted to higher levels of donors. The closest parking spots to the campus were available for those who donated $10,000 or more to the stadium this season and those parking lots are sold out. As of now, the next highest level of parking lots available are for people or businesses who donated $2,500 to the stadium this season. These parking passes will be reset every season.

RV’s will be allowed to park in the Moby Arena parking lot. This lot requires a minimum $500 donation.

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The neighborhoods surrounding campus will require parking permits, and the fine for parking in them without a permit will be $100.

Bicyclist accommodations

The University is also planning on accommodations for people who attend the game by bike.

The improvements to the infrastructure for bicyclists in Fort Collins that the University has been making to keep its Platinum rating for the League of American Bicyclists will also serve to facilitate bicyclists ways of getting to campus for games.

The University will have two bike valet stations near the stadium for bicyclists to drop off their bikes. Aaron Fodge, CSU’s manager of alternative transportation, said this service will be free. The University will encourage bicyclists to park their bikes in racks that are not immediately next to the new stadium.

Tailgating and Alcohol

The University will allow tailgating on campus. To facilitate this, the University has designated certain areas, including the parking lots of some dormitories as tailgating areas. However, according to Daniela Pineda Soracá, the president of ASCSU, alcohol will only be allowed in certain areas of campus.

Programmed tailgating, which will allow alcohol, will be on the field surrounding the Lagoon. Attendees 21 years and older will be allowed to bring their own beer, but no hard alcohol will be permitted. New Belgium Brewery will have a beer garden in the sculpture garden of the Lory Student Center.

Student organizations will be allowed to tailgate with alcohol in the parking lot of the TILT building (The Institute for Learning and Teaching). Pineda Soracá said that the details of how student organizations will get access to the lot are still in development.

Non-alcoholic tailgating will be allowed in most other parking lots, including those for the residence halls. However, no tailgating will be allowed in the parking structures on campus, such as the South Drive parking garage.

According to Pineda Soracáa, the Game Day Committee will continue to meet throughout the summer to finalize how game days will play out. They will also meet the Monday after the first game to evaluate how the day went and what improvements need to be made throughout the season.

Collegian news reporter Stuart Smith can be reached at news@collegian.com or on Twitter @notstuartsmith.

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    Menachem MevashirApr 26, 2017 at 12:04 pm

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    Menachem MevashirApr 26, 2017 at 11:20 am

    I noticed that the map in this article is so tiny that its barely visible.

    Part of the CSU plan to obscure the parking scandal.

    Sorry the Collegian is aiding and abetting the administration.

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    Abigail GrotheApr 25, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    We do not want to submit to this program. Please hear us Tony Frank! I started a petition here. Please share! –> https://www.change.org/p/president-tony-frank-stop-the-re-park-program-at-csu?recruiter=712625465&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

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      Cr4yol4Apr 25, 2017 at 5:33 pm

      Other universities around the country have similar programs. Don’t see them whining about it

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        Lisa MetzApr 27, 2017 at 7:43 am

        Do you live on campus? Do you pay for parking? If not, you have no voice in this.

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        techdudeMay 4, 2017 at 7:30 pm

        It’s a royal waste of time for students, and for what? A stupid football game? Also good luck with the petition Abigail. Tony Frank shoved the stadium down the students throats even though there was overwhelming opposition. The polls prior to the final decision showed 60% of students opposed the stadium project. Then they have the gall to print in the paper today (front page) that they have been working with developing the stadium to meet the needs and demands of the students. Bottom line is, Tony Frank doesn’t care about the student opinion if it differs from his, and he has made it abundantly clear. $220 million dollars clear.

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      Menachem MevashirApr 26, 2017 at 11:19 am

      I signed your petition and submitted a comment.

      G+D Bless You!

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    Menachem MevashirApr 25, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    It astounds me that CSU students submit to the outrageous “Re-park Program”.

    After paying enormous parking fees, the university then subjects you to the hassle of moving your cars for game day and then having to repark them around midnight?!

    I would organize a student boycott of the football games. Demand free tickets for all the games in exchange for the university treating you like garbage.

    Show some pride.

    You are paying enough for your education.

    You didn’t go to CSU to become football zombies, did you?

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      A former StudentApr 25, 2017 at 2:51 pm

      They do get free tickets….

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        Menachem MevashirApr 25, 2017 at 3:05 pm

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        Lisa MetzApr 27, 2017 at 7:44 am

        Ha ha ha…that’s great. IF you like sports. Still not enough to compensate the students in this situation.

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      Abigail GrotheApr 25, 2017 at 3:34 pm

      We are beyond angry and have been trying to stop this program. It is frustrating and unfair for the amount we pay to park on campus. If you are interested, please sign my petition against the program above.

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        Menachem MevashirApr 26, 2017 at 11:04 am

        Im not a student but I’d be happy to sign your petition. How do I do it?

        I think you should try to organize a student boycott of the football games.

        It would greatly embarass CSU to have an empty stadium.

        There are many reasons to boycott this program.

        (1) Why should the football coach get paid 10X the salary of a tenured professor?

        (2) Why should CSU sink so much funding into this Roman Coliseum project when student fees and tuition costs spiral out of control?

        (3) Why should CSU promote the corruption of semi professional collegiate sports? (Remember the CSU star basketball player who barely suffered consequences for sexual assaulting his girlfriend?)

        (4) CSU will use this stadium to flood Fort Collins with paying customers. They expect students to hang around campus and old town, forking over their scarce money for bars restaurants and so forth. CSU demonstrates unbelievable greed and insensitivity to the realities of student finances.

        If Tony Frank’s $800,000/year salary (soon to be over $1million) makes it hard for him to understand the struggles of the little guys, you guys can put together a boycott of the stadium that will drive the point home to him and to the Board of Regents who have winked and laughed this white elephant project through.

        You students have enormous power to JUST SAY NO to this massive wasteful distraction.

        Get your boycott organized.

        I will support you in every way!

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        Menachem MevashirApr 26, 2017 at 11:19 am

        Abigail, the Collegian censored my comments to you.

        Please write to me directly for them: mevashir@aol.com

        Or go to here: https://www.change.org/p/president-tony-frank-stop-the-re-park-program-at-csu/w?source_location=petition_show

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