Parking Wars

Every commuter student goes through the same situation every morning: drive around, and around, and around, finally finding a parking space four blocks away from the class you're due to be at in five minutes, carrying almost ten extra pounds on your back. No matter how well you plan your morning, parking just does not seem to get any easier and the day does not go any smoother.
UNK faculty and administration are fed up with complaints relating to parking, but this makes it evident that it is a problem, not just students complaining. It seems like everyone has a solution to the parking situation, but the administration has yet to even try one common idea: eliminating on-campus student's, more specifically, freshman parking. There are few other solutions to this problem that will not cost the University a fortune. This would simply mean forcing students, more specifically freshman who live in the dorms, to park off-campus. These students live on campus and are they are there overnight so getting to class is not an issue to them. Adding parking spaces around campus does not seem to be a solution because there are few places already, but requiring on-campus freshman students to park off-campus would not cost and would open many parking spots to commuters.
Student commuters pay $50/ year for a parking pass, but what is the point when there is no guaranteed parking spot? Morning parking seems to be the biggest issue for students, by having on-campus students park on the streets the night before when there is parking would open more spaces for commuters in the morning. Not only that but on-campus students would still have closer parking spacing than off-campus commuters. This would be a system of hierarchy, freshman would park off-campus so that upperclassman could park closer to their classes.
There is no other alternative to this situation that will not cost money. Cutting spots for freshman on campus is only minor to how some Universities have solved parking issues. Many Universities across the nation have not allowed freshman to have vehicles on campus in order to open spots, for example the University of Maryland does not allow freshman to register for campus parking unless they can prove they have an off-campus job.
If this does not work, UNK administration only has one other solution: stop making $14.5 renovations to the campus and start working on a multi-level parking garage.
Too many students and too little space. With UNK's population steadily rising, this situation is going to only get worse and worse. Eliminating freshman parking would give more spots to upperclassman and commuters would have the chance to park closer to campus.