Student - CP

Central Campus Surface Parking with Overnight Garage Access

Student - CP

Central Campus Surface Parking with Overnight Garage Access

CP

Student Premium Parking Central Campus

  • Permit Year - 2020-2021
  • Annual Cost - $902.52
  • Monthly Cost - $75.21

Eligibility

This permit is available to students Rank 2 (at least 30 completed credit hours) or higher living in university housing. Student permit eligibility is determined by the university.

Permit Perks

  • Proximate Access: In addition to C permit surface lot access, each of the versions of the CP permit provide peak, off-peak, and overnight parking access in one parking garage.
  • Premium Access: The CP permit is the only student permit option that includes overnight garage access.

Parking Access

During campus-wide events like football games or concerts, an annual access keycard grants free access to all public day-of-event surface lots and garages.

  • Present your annual access keycard for no-cost entry into surface lots being sold at an event rate, regardless of final destination.
  • If your permit normally provides access to the garage that is being sold at an event rate, you may use your annual access keycard to enter the garage at no cost.
  • Keep your annual access keycard available year-round: If you do not have your annual access keycard, you mu will be required to pay the nonrefundable event parking rate to enter the facility.
Paid Hourly With Payment
Accessible No Access
State Vehicle No Access
Reserved Spaces No Access

Peak: 5 a.m. - 4 p.m. Weekdays
Off-Peak: 4 p.m. - 3 a.m. Weekdays, All Day Weekends
Overnight: 3 a.m. - 5 a.m.

Permit-specific surface lot access information is available here.

Reminders for Permit Holders

We use license plate recognition technology to ensure that parked vehicles have valid permits and are parked in the appropriate areas. It's important to keep your vehicle license plate information current at all times. 

  • Up to two vehicles may be linked to a permit, but only one vehicle may be parked on campus at a time.
  • Paid hourly parking or a valid visitor permit is required for an additional linked vehicle to be parked on campus simultaneously.
  • Permit holders are responsible for ensuring license plate information is correct. Failure to do so may result in citations.

Customers with permits that include garage access are provided an annual access keycard (annual permit holders) or a garage access keycard (monthly permit holders).

  • Garage gates are activated by scanning the QR code (located on the back of the keycard) on the readers located at garage entrances and exits.
  • Keycards may be used to exit only if the last use was for entry, and vice versa. If a ticket is pulled to enter a garage, payment must be made at exit.

These garages are reserved for visitors 5 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday-Friday. Permit holders exiting these garages after 8 a.m. on these days are subject to additional fees.

  • The 12th Avenue (Wexner Medical Center)
  • North Cannon (Wexner Medical Center)
  • Ohio Union South (South Campus)

These garages are reserved for visitors at all times:

Overnight permit parking in the following garages is restricted to designated upper levels.

  • Lane Avenue Garage: Levels 5 – 6
  • West Lane Avenue Garage: No Restrictions
  • Arps Garage: Levels 4 – 5
  • 11th Avenue Garage: Levels 3 – 4
  • Ohio Union North Garage: Levels 4S – 5N
  • Gateway Garage: Levels 4 and Up

Additional overnight parking is available in the designated spaces on the west side of Carmack Lot 5 on West Campus.

There are multiple versions of the CP permit, with each granting specific garage access:

  • CPN1: Access at all times to Lane Avenue
    Garage (not available to first-year students)
  • CPN2: Access at all times to West Lane Avenue
    Garage (not available to first-year students)
  • CPN4: Access at all times to Arps Garage (not
    available to first-year students)
  • CPS: Access at all times to 11th Avenue Garage
    (available to ranks 3 [60+ hours] and higher)
  • CPS2: Access at all times to Ohio Union North
    Garage (not available to first-year students)
  • CPS3: Access at all times to Gateway Garage
    (not available to first-year students)