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WISTEC Parkland Parking Control Plan For more than a decade event parking of vehicles (Duck football and Cuthbert Amphitheater events) has taken place on the grounds surrounding the WISTEC facility. Today, the City and WISTEC are in the final stages of concluding an agreement to transfer ownership of the building and to extend a long -term ground lease to WISTEC. This will result in WISTEC assuming additional responsibility for maintaining the area within the land lease boundaries including event - parking operations. Primarily WISTEC's use of the land in Alton Baker Park consists of activities consistent with teaching children about science and nature All of these activities are considered very low impact on parklands. In past years, during the summer and fall, WISTEC (or the University of Oregon) has parked vehicles (approximately 10 times a year) on the grass areas immediate surrounding the building and adjacent areas. Future plans are to continue this practice. WISTEC has developed a simple three -phase plan to ensure that the impacts of vehicle parking on the grassy areas are minimized. Additionally, this plan is also designed to reduce the potential for any negative impact on park wildlife. Implementation of this plan begins in early spring and continues through the beginning of winter. Phase 1 – Designated Vehicle Parking Vehicle parking is a strictly controlled effort that ensures cars are driven and parked in appropriate and designated locations. This is achieved by ensuring that vehicles do not traverse, and are not parked in, locations that have the potential to cause irreparable damage to parklands. Specifically, vehicle owners are: • prevented from driving on the Prefontane trail —at all times; • prevented from driving or parking within 15 feet of any of several ponds; • prevented from parking within 6 feet of the west boundary tree line. • prevented from parking closer than 3 feet to the sidewalk on the south side of LHP; • prevented from driving over curbs or other obstacles to enter or exit parking areas; • not allowed to exceed 5 mph; • not allowed to keep engines running once the vehicle is parked; • forbidden to honk horns to celebrate; • asked to leave if their vehicle has obvious mechanical defects or damage that might cause harm to grounds. WISTEC uses a number of mechanisms to ensure compliance with these rules including (and foremost) direct action by WISTEC personnel who are on -site during any parking operation. We use the placement of traffic cones and barricades and appropriate signs to guide drivers. Immediate intervention to remedy infractions when they occur is used to limit the impacts rules violations may have on the park. Phase 2 – Football Game Tailgating Football parking is generally accompanied by tailgating and with it comes additional concern about impacts on the park. WISTEC has had good success in the past with our parking members respecting the fact they are on public parkland. We anticipate that level of cooperation to continue. To ensure