The Administrative Ad Hoc Parking Committee will recommend several parking lot changes to NIU President John LaTourette.

The committee met Monday and their recommendations will be given to LaTourette as soon as possible, committee chairman William Parker said.

Committee recommendations include a general agreement with a proposal outlined in a Jan. 31 report made by Henry Winsor, who is the student representative on the committee.

The committee voted to change Lot A, east of Anderson Hall, Lot H, south of the Student Recreation Center, and Lot M, south of the Northern Television Center to accept yellow parking permits. These lots previously required brown permits.

The committee voted to recommend a change in Lot V, east of Anderson Hall and south of Lot A. If approved, the lot no longer would be designated for brown/orange parking permits but rather orange/Gilbert Hall residents only. The committee said this system is in effect in lot D near Neptune Hall. Orange permit holders must be residents of Neptune to use lot D.

Lot G, north of the recreation center, was recommended to change from yellow/orange to yellow.

The committee will recommend on-street parking west of Annie Glidden Road from brown permits to yellow/blue.

The committee also will recommend graduate assistants and teaching assistants no longer be accessible to blue parking permits. The committee is proposing these groups receive yellow permits.

Lot N, south of Anderson Hall would become part of the adjacent lot 2. The lot would be changed from green/blue permits to blue with a gate at the entrance.

Lot E, east of the Chick Evans Field House, also would change from green/blue to blue. A gate would be erected at this entrance also as soon as possible.

Lot 15, west of the Psych-Math Building, would change from green/blue to blue.

Parker told the committee he talked with a representative from Carl Walker and Associates, a parking consultant firm in Elgin, Ill. The firm offers parking alternatives including lot restructuring and multi-level parking facilities.

The firm is considering a study similar to the one taken at the University of North Carolina at Greensborough, committee member Pat Hewitt said. This study took into consideration the amount and size of lots and the traffic flow of pedestrians and autos. The firm gave a small “sales pitch,” Parker said.

The committee agreed to investigate the possibilities of acquisitioning the land behind the Village Commons Bookstore and the southwest corner of Stadium Drive and Annie Glidden.

The committee recommended the elimination of red reserve spaces given in conjunction with the permit card. There is no reason certain individuals need two possible parking places, one committee member said.

Recommendations will go into effect for the fall 1988 semester, if LaTourette approves.