Yellow tape lines several parking spaces on South Stadium Road, blocking students in their daily search for parking.Until the lots finish their transformation to handicapped lots, they will remain taped. But even once that tape is cleared, the refigured lots may remain empty.Staci Pepitone, assistant to the vice chancellor of Finance and Administrative Services, said the Office for Civil Rights with the Department of Education required the University to install eight handicapped spaces after a complaint was filed.”Most people that have accessibility issues on campus … They park inside the Easy Streets,” Pepitone said. “I don’t know [that these handicapped lots] will be highly used.”People with accessibility problems traditionally contact either the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation or the Office of Disability Services and accommodations are made, Pepitone said.But an anonymous member of the University community filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights.”This time, somebody went another route,” Pepitone said. “That means somebody from the Department comes out and looks at what we’ve got and looks at the person’s complaint … They came back and said ‘We need you to add eight parking spaces to Lot B.'”Ben Cornwell, associate director of the Student Health Center, said parking accessibility issues traditionally are handled by the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation.”[The Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation] has historically done a good job of working with students to provide accommodations,” Cornwell said.
 
 
 
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