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Let's face it ... parking spaces are increasingly at a premium.
Moreover, your school's or organization's security and sense of community does not just begin at your front door.
Parking lot security and organization has never been more important. Parking needs be controlled, too.
Yet, too many property managers find that they have lost control of their parking areas.
Here are four easy and proven steps to take to get control back. |
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Add a Parking Permit Program. |
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Control of a parking lot starts with parking permits. Luckily, it has never been easier and more affordable to implement a permit program. For small parking lots, you can order just 50 personalized permits for $150 (delivered). Or, use one of our in-stock designs. |
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A permit program makes it easy to spot "outsiders". Enforcement is clear-cut. You create a sense of community and fair play. After all, illegal parking hurts any legitimate use of the parking lot. |
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• Design Your Own Parking Permit
• Ten Tips to Better Parking Permits |
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Post Parking Violation Signs. |
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Signs provide 24 hour notice that parking is restricted. Larger signs are better and hard to ignore. The best parking lots place large 18" x 24" signs at each entrance. Also place signs along each bank. Parking security insiders use a "rule of thumb" that places a new sign for each 20 parking spots. Obviously, conditions vary. Try to post the signs high enough so that they are seen over the parked cars. Most property managers use our 8' posts. |
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If you use a towing company, make sure to use a sign that gives a name and/or telephone to contact in case of a tow. |
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• Personalized Tow Away Signs
• In-Stock Parking Violation Signs
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Use Parking Violation Stickers. |
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Show that you mean business. Getting control of your parking lost requires a systemic approach; and, stickers are a vital link. Once a violator has ignored the signs, spurned the parking permit program . . . bring in the violation stickers and tags. These cannot be ignored. There are no excuses. Starting with a removable notice and escalating to fluorescent, "in-your-face" warnings that must be scrapped off, you have given ample notification that illegal parking cannot be tolerated. There are no excuses. |
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• Parking Violation Stickers
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Tow or Boot. |
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Threats are not credible without real teeth. Increasingly, we see our customer turning to the auto boot. Now available to property owners and easy to install and quite portable, even smaller lots are using a wheel boot or immobilizer. Fines from boot removal easily pay for the initial costs. These revenues are available to support your own security initiatives and not diverted to a tow company. |
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We understand, of course, that towing remains the most common enforcement strategy – especially for smaller facilities. But, make sure to give violators a way to recover their vehicles. |
| Our philosophy about parking lots, in many ways, comes from our experience with crime reduction here in New York. Famously called the "broken windows" approach to crime, more and more enforcement professionals understand that connection between a sense of disorder and a more important breakdown in safety and security. |
| We hear of similar results from our many property management customers. Pay attention to minor infractions and the larger issues – better security, lower theft and a growing sense of community are all welcome results. Fire lanes and dumpsters are clear, legitimate vehicles are rewarded and the value of your property is enhanced. |
| And, you have regained control of your parking. |
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