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BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:"Tailgating starts 3 hours prior to kickoff" really means "You can start driving your car onto Shea Field (or wherever else) 3 hours prior."
A decent compromise would be to open the lots for a period of time on Friday night. Say something like "From 6PM-10PM, you can park your car in your spot for the game on Saturday." No tailgating would be allowed at that time, obviously, but at least then you would have the majority of cars parked on Friday which would cut down on traffic Saturday. Concerns about traffic on Friday would be justified, especially during rush hour, but you're affording a four hour window to park allowing people to spread out when they arrive.
A decent compromise would be that the lots open at 8:00 the morning of Gameday regardless of kickoff time. Traffic issues would be resolved as there would be no crush getting onto campus (folks would just arrive organically). If you want to give the city a win, restrict post-game tailgating to 2-hours (zero for night games). BC should also do away with all the self-imposed, nonsensical nanny-state rules they have for things like access to Shea or playing games, etc.
is there a situation where theres more than 2 hrs of post game tailgating?
agree with your idea, unfortunately it will never happen though.
Is there any reason in theory BC can't just tell the neighbors "fuck you, this is private land"??
I'm no real estate lawyer, but here is my quess: generally speaking, the "this is my land and I can do what I want" argument kinda works in limited circumstances where you are just doing something private on your land that does not violated any permitted zoning use. But when BC hosts a major sporting event it is conducting commercial activity, and because of zoning restrictions we need permits to invite 44,000 (or, more realistically, 35,000) people onto campus for commercial purposes. Plus we rely on local governments (law enforcement for traffic control, security, ambulance and fire on occassion, etc. for major sporting events. BC also probably needs to seek all kinds of variances whenever it wants to put up a new building, which can get bogged down if local pols decide their citizens are really upset about the number of kids throwing up on their laws, traffic, etc. during football games. As a result, we need to negotiate this kind of thing or municipal authorities could make future zoning or permitting difficult. So BC is forced to play the local political game and make some concessions to prevent local authorities from making life too difficult (or expensive) for BC.
