NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Buhler USD 313 Superintendent Cindy Couchman said a parking lot expansion project at the district's newest elementary school has to do with unintended consequences of the pandemic.
"As you know, with buses, we are not able to bus quite as many students as we used to," Couchman said. "The unintended consequence of that is more parents in pickup lines and more parents in drop off lines. We're trying to help accommodate that traffic flow. Hopefully, that will make things a little more efficient in the mornings and afternoons for our parents."
The original thought was that they wouldn't need as much parking, but there are still a lot of folks who drive their kids to school each day.
"The parking is pretty limited there," Couchman said. "We actually built an overflow parking for helping with pickup and drop off of students in the mornings and afternoons and with events that are held there, like concerts. We have found that we just didn't have enough parking, even with the overflow parking that we just put in. We're going to expand that overflow parking just to the south there. We've been working with the city and making sure we have permissions to do that and submitting drawings."
The parking will be expanded about 55 feet to the south.
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