Parking

Welcome to the Cleveland State University (CSU) Parking Services homepage. Please use the link tabs on the right margin to locate information about parking on the CSU Main Campus. If you are a CSU faculty, staff or student with CampusNet access, you can purchase and register for most parking permit hangtags on your CampusNet account.

Mission Statement

The Cleveland State University (CSU) Parking Services Department strives to meet the parking, transportation, and related accessibility needs of the CSU campus by providing, planning, management, and operational services with the goal of customer satisfaction while fulfilling the financial expectations of the University for its performance. To this end, Parking Services employs a team of experienced professionals and student employees who work collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and other campus patrons to manage and operate the parking system, facilitate participation in the Regional Transit Authority; and to provide information for students, faculty, and staff as they traverse to, from, and on campus.

Announcements:

• South Garage (East 21st Street east of the Wolstein Center)
  Effective Tuesday October 13, 2009, the CSU South Garage will open to all CSU Prepaid Parking Permit holders for daily use parking. An active, valid Viking Card is required to enter and exit the garage. Possession of a hang tag alone will not provide access. Prepaid Parking Permit holders may park in the facility during the operating hours of 6AM to midnight 7 days per week (with the exception of Special Event days).

The new facility is different from existing CSU parking garages in a few ways:

• Viking Cards are required for automated access by prepaid permit holders. Your valid Viking Card will activate the gate arm upon entrance and exit.
• The garage will be attended only on Special Event days.
• The garage features green technology with solar panels installed to produce about 10% of the projected power needed in the garage.
• For Visitors and Must Pay tag holders, the parking fee is $1 per hour (or fraction thereof) with daily maximum of $6. The fee is paid to automated equipment upon exit.

The following are specific instructions for prepaid CSU permit holders -- SWIPE IN. SWIPE OUT!

1. When entering the facility, place the Viking Card in the card reader (black box) with the magnetic stripe facing up (as pictured on the reader). Cardholders will be required to swipe upon entrance and again upon exiting. Please note: Prepaid permit holders should not take a ticket upon entering the garage.
2. It may take a moment for the gate to open after your Viking Card has been swiped in the card reader
3. 24 Hour Exit: Cardholders may exit the facility after hours by swiping in the 24 hour exit lane. This lane is on the East 21st side of the garage (southbound only) and is the right most lane closest to the garage lobby.Both the parking gate and security gate raise once swiped.The gates close once the vehicle
has exited.
4. If your valid Viking Card does not work at the card reader, proceed to an alternate parking facility for the day and contact Parking immediately.

Other points of interest:
* Pedestrians may enter the facility after hours only through the lobby doors at the northwest corner of the garage.
* The CSU Must Pay parking program is not supported at the South Garage. Must Pay tag holders will be charged the Visitor rate.

• CSU Parking Services now offers a CSU Cultural Events Parking Coupon. Created as a means to promote cultural events on campus, this prepaid coupon program reflects a $2 discount per park off regular CSU event parking rates. A booklet of 5 coupons is valid for five separate parks at CSU cultural events. The coupons are available to all guests and visitors who wish to attend scheduled cultural events on campus. A coupon booklet sells for $20 and can be ordered by calling CSU Parking Services at 216.687.2023.
  A one time use parking coupon is also available Click to download CSU Arts parking coupon
• CSU Prepaid hangtag holders may park in Playhouse Square Garage at no additional cost to the hangtag holder. This offer is limited to Monday through Friday and is subject space availability. The entrance to the Playhouse Square Garage is located on Chester Avenue at East 15th Street.
• For escort service to and from your destination as well as motorist assistance, dial 216.687.2020 from your cell phone or 2020 from a campus phone. Both services are available to CSU students, faculty and staff as well as visitors to campus.

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