Parking on campus could become even more expensive next year.
The Department of Public Safety proposed a $28.41 fee increase for parking and transportation on Friday to the student fee advisory subcommittee.
The student transportation fee, which funds services including Safe Ride, P2P and Chapel Hill Transit, is currently $145.74.
DPS representatives Wilhelmina Steen and Cheryl Stout said at the meeting that the changes would include a $17.50 increase for Chapel Hill Transit and a new $10.40 charge for nighttime parking.
The past few years of increases to the fee are part of DPS’s five-year plan, which originally intended to raise the fee by $14 each year.
The nighttime parking fee is meant to cover costs associated with the currently free system where students can park anywhere on campus after 5 p.m.
DPS previously offered the option to have students pay for a $227 annual nighttime parking permit, but ultimately student representatives opted to incorporate it into the transportation fee.
Steen said people parking at night for free are receiving the benefits of the system without contributing to it.
“There are two groups historically who have not contributed to the (transportation and parking) system: park-and-riders and nighttime parkers,” Steen said. “There was a park and ride fee that was initiated this year and a nighttime parking fee that will be instituted next year.”