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Transportation and Parking Information for Employees

School of Pharmacy employees have a variety of options for its employee with regards to parking on campus. Parking on campus is limited but the School has spaces allocated in various lots across campus. Employees must pay for on-campus parking and rates vary based on the lot (gated/non-gated) and the employees’ salary. Parking is payroll deducted from paycheck on a pre-tax basis. Spaces are allocated to Pharmacy employees based on the guidelines below.

Information about campus parking lots can be viewed here:

Priority parking is given to Pharmacy employees in the following roles:

  • Dean
  • Executive Vice/Associate/Assistant Deans
  • Chairs
  • Total State Service
  • Temporary Employees

Current employees are invited to participate in the parking lottery annually during the summer.  During the lottery process, all employees are invited to submit their top three parking choices based on the allocations available.  Employees are encouraged to be strategic about their requests based on their years of previous state service.  Once all interested employees have submitted their top three parking preferences, allocations are made based on the hierarchy above.  Every effort is made to assign a permit in an employee’s top three preferences.  If an employee does not get his/her first or second choice, they can request to be added to a wait list for that lot.  Parking permits are virtual, and you must register your vehicle and license plate via online services. You are able to change your parking option at any time by contacting the departmental parking coordinator.

As new employees join the School, they are offered parking in the lots available at the time of hire.  They are then added to the waiting list for their preferred lots and are offered the next available space there based on their state service.

Please note:  In rare instances, as new Deans, Chairs, etc. are hired, the last employees granted space in a lot may be bumped back to another lot in order to accommodate a new employee with priority parking.

Daily Parking Permit from the School’s Parking Allotment

The School is able to provide daily parking permits to faculty and staff from the School’s annual parking permit allotments. This is available for faculty and staff who are on campus 3 days or less per week. Requests for daily parking permits occur annually during the School’s summer parking lottery, and can be requested off cycle with the understanding that parking offered wil be based on lots available at the time of the request.

  • Eligibility: Available for faculty and staff who are on campus 3 days or less per week.
  • Hybrid Schedules: Must match your current work location arrangement for staff, or be verified by your supervisor if you are faculty.
  • Cost: $8 per day for every day you park on campus.
    • For example, if you park on campus 3 days a week, the cost would be $8 x 3 = $24.
  • Permit Assignment:
    • Either during the annual parking lottery or for an off-cycle request, staff or faculty interested in a daily pass must indicate they are interested in a 3 day or less or 2 day or less daily permit pass. This does not change the cost of the permit for the employee, but is required for Parking Coordinator planning purposes.
    • Guaranteed space in an assigned lot if you receive a daily permit from the School’s available permits.
    • You must request and pay for the daily permit through ParkMobile ahead of time each time you park in your assigned lot.
    • If you receive a daily parking permit from the School’s allotments you will receive a person-specific access code for ParkMobile for so your assigned lot shows up in the ParkMobile for you to purchase daily parking from.
    • Daily parking permit assignments will follow the School’s allocation formula; requesting a daily permit does not guarantee an assignment.
  • Payment:
    • Pay $8 each day through the ParkMobile App, regardless of the 3 or 2 day option.
    • The employee is responsible for directPayment is required upfront each time a daily pass is needed and cannot be payroll deducted.

Postdoc Daily Parking

Daily permit options are available for postdoctoral research associates from the University’s central postdoc parking pool. If you are a postdoc interested in a daily parking permit who works 3 days or 2 days or less per week on campus, you can reach out to Transportation and Parking via email at parking@unc.edu with the following information:

  • Your full name
  • PID
  • And your request for daily parking in the S11 lots or Craige Deck

Transportation and Parking will then provide you with a person-specific access code for ParkMobile for so your assigned lot shows up in the ParkMobile for you to purchase daily parking from.

University-wide Daily Parking

Employees who park 3 days or less weekly are eligible to utilize the University-wide daily parking options through ParkMobile. There are full day and hourly options: 

Daily Parking Options ($8 per day)
Occasional-use, daily parking options are offered via ParkMobile on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Hourly Options ($1.75 per hour)
Hourly parking options are available at meters, Rams Head parking deck, and Raleigh Road. Dogwood Deck and the ACC lot are reserved for patient/visitor parking only.

Park and Ride

Many School employees take advantage of alternative parking options. The University operates a park and ride system where employees can purchase a permit ($250/year – $390/year depending on salary) to park in one of a number of lots around Chapel Hill and take a bus to campus. Many park and ride buses stop right in front of the Pharmacy buildings.

Chapel Hill Transit

Chapel Hill Transit provides free bus services to a variety of stops around campus, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro. Employees who live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro may be able to take advantage of the free public transportation to get to campus.

GoPass

Employees coming to campus from the Durham, Raleigh, or Hilllsborough area can take advantage of the free GoPass option through Triangle Transit/GoTriangle to bus to campus from stops in these surrounding areas. Employees who live in Greensboro, Whitsett, Burlington, Mebane, and Graham may use the free GoPass option to bus to campus from various locations through PART.

Carpools/Vanpools

Rideshare options through vanpools or carpools are options as well for a nominal monthly fee.

Information on these options can be found at: http://move.unc.edu/cap/

The SKIDATA Parking Access Revenue Control System (PARCS) allows authorized department representatives to virtually validate approved patient/visitor parking access to the Rams Head Deck, Dogwood Deck, Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) Lot and the Morehead Lot.

The digital validation process, sweb.Validate, replaces the various validation methods currently used (including physical visitor parking vouchers/tickets for decks like Dogwood Deck).

School of Pharmacy divisions and/or departments may request a sweb.Validate account by emailing esop_parking@unc.edu. Division Executive Assistants are the Validation Administrators for their divisions and can set up subsequent Validation Associates based on division needs.

The SKIDATA system uses license plate recognition (LPR) technology at entry to read the vehicle license plate, then prints the plate and time of entry on the parking ticket.

The patient/visitor must present the parking ticket to the validating department representative for digital validation. If a patient/visitor forgets the ticket and does not know their license plate, they can call the department representative when they return to the vehicle for remote ticket validation.

Once a ticket is paid in full, the parking gate automatically raises as the customer approaches the exit lane. Customers are responsible for any unvalidated parking costs and payments can be made at the pay station, in the mobile app, or pay-in-lane.

Departments are eligible to be Validation Providers for patients/visitors at the following parking facilities:

Validation Administrators can:

  • Submit Fund Requests to Transportation and Parking
  • Generate reporting
  • Add other Validation Administrators
  • Add Validation Associates
  • Approve Fund Requests from Validation Associates

Validation Associates can:

  • Validate parking tickets and view recent validations
  • Send Fund Requests to Validation Administrator
  • Run reports and search for tickets

Validation Types:

Departments have the option to choose the type of validation:

  • Full Validation – Total parking cost validated, no charge until exit
  • Cash Value – Set dollar amount to validate
  • Time Value – Set hour amount to validate
  • Percentage – Set percentage to validate (e.g., 25%, 50%, 75%)

Customers are responsible for any unvalidated parking costs and payments can be made at the pay station, in the mobile app, or pay-in-lane.

Funding requests within sweb.Validate are the way in which departments can request and pay for visitor parking validation credits ahead of time (replacing previous processes of requesting and paying for physical paper visitor parking vouchers).

Payment must be made prior to funds being added to the sweb.Validate account. Options to add account Validation Funds include:

Customer Billing Management (CBM) – University Departments Only

  • Validation Administrator submits Fund Requests via sweb.Validate and provides:
    • Payment Type – “Bill,” represents CBM transfer
    • Currency – “US Dollar ($)”
    • Details – Department Number for charge
    • Amount – Dollar amount of funds requested
  •  Validation Administrator notified within two business days, to verify request status
  •  Transactions submitted for CBM processing in next available file transfer
  •  Departments can review and adjust chartfield strings for Validation Funds in CBM once the file is closed and uploaded in ConnectCarolina

Credit Card and P-Card

  • Validation Administrator submits Fund Requests via sweb.Validate and provides:
    • Payment Type – “Bill,” represents Credit Card & P-Card transaction
    • Currency – “US Dollar ($)”
    • Details – Indicate “P-Card, “Mastercard,” or “Visa” | DO NOT INCLUDE ANY CARD INFORMATION
    • Amount – Dollar amount of funds requested
  •  Contact Parking Accounts Receivable at 919-962-3951 for payment processing
  •  Funds added within two business days, following payment

 Check

  • Validation Administrator submits Fund Requests via sweb.Validate and provides:
    • Payment Type – “Check,” represents check transaction
    • Currency – “US Dollar ($)”
    • Details – No information required
    • Amount – Dollar amount of funds requested
  •  Submit check for processing in-person or through mail
    •  Indicate “Validation” or the “Event Number” in notes section of check
  •  Funds will be added within two business days of receipt of check

Patients/visitors have a variety of fast, convenient parking payment options. LPR technology is used at the exit gate to determine if parking has been paid. When a parking session is prepaid, the gate will automatically raise, so patients/visitors are encouraged to use the pay stations and mobile app for efficient exiting. If the customer does not pay prior to getting to the exit gate, there is a pay-in-lane option at the gate.

  • Pay Stations: Dogwood Deck – Levels 2 and 3
  • Cashier Booth: Dogwood Deck – Level 2
  • Mobile App (Coming Soon)
  • Pay-In-Lane at Exits

Customers are responsible for any unvalidated parking costs and payments can be made at the pay station, in the mobile app, or pay-in-lane.

In an effort to provide support, the recording of the 7/22/24 training below is provided for your reference. Administrators and Associates can also review the sweb.Validate User Guide for step by step instructions with screen shots. Please feel free to contact esop_parking@unc.edu with any questions or concerns.

Alternative Graduate Student Parking is available to graduate students working on experiments/academics on football game days. Event permits of this type are for academic business only only (not for game parking) and are no additional cost to the student.

If you are a Graduate Student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and would like to request alternative parking for UNC Football gamedays, please submit your request using the Qualtrics form below:

Graduate Student Alternative Game Day Parking Request Form

Please allow two business days for the School of Pharmacy Parking Coordinator to submit this request on your behalf to the Central UNC Parking Office. Once the request has been submitted, the Parking Coordinator will reach out to confirm submission.

  • The UNC Department of Transportation and Parking maintains a comprehensive website that details information on parking options, policies, and fees that is a great resources for new and current employees
  • For questions, additional information or if you would like to sign up for an on-campus parking option, please email esop_parking@unc.edu.