Chapman University’s main parking lot is the underground Lastinger Parking Structure under Wilson field on the north side of the campus. Enter from Walnut Avenue, just east of Glassell Street. (Check the maps.) Parking is not free on Sunday, even if the gate is up. However, the permit vending machine is about 100 feet south of the entry area. There are other machines elsewhere in the lot. Find one, buy a permit, and put it on your dashboard. Do not park in any other lot, in a reserved space, or back into a space.Free street parking
also is available on the campus-side of the streets only. Parking in front of any residential housing will result in an expensive parking ticket. A City of Orange public parking lot, located on the southwest corner of E. Maple and N. Orange, is also free and only 2 blocks from the meeting.
An easy walk.
Save Your Parking Permits!
To offset the cost of parking in the Lastinger Underground Parking Structure, the NOCCC Board approved a motion to give each member two NOCCC General Drawing raffle tickets in exchange for the Lastinger-parking permit. Turn in the bottom-half “receipt” part of your permit to the Rafflemeister on the same day or hold it until the next meeting. Dennis Martin, the Raffle Leader, will exchange it for two raffle tickets.
The reason for this is that the NOCCC Board has found that some people are not attending meetings or not renewing their memberships because of the parking situation. Chapman University has allowed us to park in the Lastinger Parking Structure under Wilson Field for only $2 for the whole day of our meeting; normally $2 is good for only two hours. The advantages of parking there are clear; you don’t have to drive around looking for a legal spot (remember, don’t park on the private home side of the street), the car doesn’t get hot and you don’t have to parallel park. There is even an elevator available to get up and down.
Free parking on city streets is restricted to the campus side of the street. Parking on the residents side of the streets adjacent to the campus (or many of the surrounding streets for several blocks) can get you a ticket, unless you have a Handicap placard. The Handicap placard trumps the resident sticker requirement.
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