CAMPUS HILLS GROUP ASKS FOR PARKING BAN.

Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer

Citing traffic problems, litter and noise, the Campus Hills Homeowners Association has asked the city to further limit student parking on the streets around the Moorpark College campus.

Although several streets have restrictions on one-hour parking, the association has asked that the city consider blocking parking at all times on most of University Drive, as well as Milne Court and Trollope Court.

``The main complaint we hear is about student parking,'' said Linda Foster, corporate secretary of the association. ``We've heard complaints that they park across driveways, and are blocking the streets so that residents can't park their own cars there.''

But school officials said they have suggested several alternative solutions to the problem, including allowing temporary parking on Collins Drive, and converting Campus Drive to a one-way road to allow for diagonal parking there.

``Closing off parking at all times is going to make it that much more difficult for students,'' said Ruth Hemming, vice president for college services. ``For the first three weeks of classes, until students settle down into patterns, we need all the parking we can find. We would like to work with

the city, and the residents for that matter, for more cooperation on that.''

The City Council is scheduled to consider the association's request at its meeting tonight, and whether to keep the one-hour limit and simply increase parking enforcement, or to put unlimited restrictions on the most-affected streets.

Councilwoman Debbie Rodgers Teasley, a member of the council's transportation and street committee, said she would be comfortable with either choice.

``Certainly, whatever we do we can undo,'' she said. ``Nothing is ever carved in stone. For the time being, I would go either one of two ways.''

Over the past year, three petitions signed by many of the association's residents were submitted to the city. One advocated only extending the one-hour limit to more streets - such as Borges Court, Freshman Court and Swift Place - and the others ask for an overall ban of parking on all streets except by permit.

As proposed to the council, added restrictions limit parking on University, Milne and Trollope to residents and those with city-issued permits. They also would require that residents get permits for their guests before they are allowed to park.

To park in any one of the college's 3,000 parking spaces, the campus's 13,000 students are required to buy and display $30 parking permits.

To help with the parking problem, the college recently paved over several dirt lots on the upper campus to add new spaces. But, even with the added space, citations in the residential areas averaged about 100 per week for the first month of classes.