The Health Research Laboratory lot is restricted to the research laboratory's employees and official business visitors only. All others will be ticketed, said Julie Wilson, facility manager for Los Alamos' Life Sciences Division, which operates the Health Research Laboratory. The lot, which is owned by the Laboratory, is located north and east of the Health Research Laboratory and west of Los Alamos Medical Center on Diamond Drive. The formation of the new Biosciences Division at Los Alamos also will create a greater need for parking because of increased activity at the site, she said. Laboratory senior managers, Legal Counsel, hospital administrators and the Department of Energy's Los Alamos Area Office have been informed of Life Sciences' policy on enforcement.
Enforcement includes ticketing and towing illegally parked vehicles.
Wilson said vehicles that don't display an HRL parking permit will be ticketed on the first parking violation. Repeat violations could result in the vehicles being towed at the owner's expense, she said. The parking area in question is near the emergency room entrance to Los Alamos Medical Center. Several parking spaces for emergency room customers and the attending emergency room physician near the emergency room entrance will remain available, she said. She noted that additional parking has been added east of the hospital in addition to other available hospital parking for non-emergencies, and that hospital parking areas are clearly marked.