By: Bob Browand

To help make last week’s post about the anatomy of an event more relatable, I thought we’d tie it into a big event our department is currently busily preparing for – Frontier Fiesta.

An annual, student-run festival that takes place on campus every spring semester, Frontier Fiesta promotes education, community and scholarships, all while showcasing the many talents of the UH student body.

Scheduled to take place from March 24 until March 26, the event, a time-honored tradition that began in 1940, will include live concerts, variety shows by student organizations, carnival booths, a barbecue cookoff and more, all within the student-built “Fiesta City”, a fully functional town that will be constructed near TDECU Stadium over the next few weeks in preparation for the festivities.

The construction will take place in lots 12A and 12B, which means parking in the area will be impacted—that’s where we come in.

Beginning as early as Saturday, March 12, parking spaces will be blocked off so that students can begin to prepare the event space. The map below outlines the full timeline of exactly what lots will be impacted when.

As we mentioned last week, our role in this event is to assist the event organizer, which in this case is the Frontier Fiesta Planning Committee, in developing an orderly parking and transportation plan that minimizes the impact on the campus’s parking and transportation infrastructure.

The parking plan in place for this year’s fiesta was actually presented to and approved by the Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee last semester.

So, if you find yourself near TDECU Stadium over the next couple of weeks and wonder what’s going on and why there’s signage about additional parking at ERP, just know this is why. We’re working with UH student leaders to help keep a great tradition alive, all while trying to minimize the impacts felt across campus. We, and the Frontier Fiesta Planning Committee greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation at this time.

For more information about parking impacts during this time, please click here.

To learn more about the event itself visit www.uh.edu/fiesta.

published: Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016

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