If you are a student and need to go to the neurology, oncology, or any of the other important ‘ology clinics at Shands Medical Plaza: beware.
The parking “officers” are waiting to prey on your sick, wasting, contemptible body. I’ve been ticketed the last three times I have gone for legitimate doctor’s appointments. There is nothing you can do to protect yourself.
As a patient you are required to park in the attended lot. If you are a student and they find you, you will get a ticket. It’s that simple. The burden is on you to convince UF Transportation and Parking Services you were there legitimately. Don’t believe it? Allow me.
Unlike parking in front of the Student Health Care Center, you do not get a tag to put in your windshield to show you are a legitimate visitor.
Instead, when I asked the “officer” who gave me one of my tickets what I did wrong he simply replied: “I ran your tag and it showed you were a student.” What a racket.
Here is the de facto policy as it stands now:
1. Assume any student parked in the garage is there illegitimately and ticket them.
2. Place the burden on legitimate student patients to prove through the appeals process they were sick.
3. Profit.
