parking is also extremely limited due to space limitations. attempts to rectify the parking situation have placed newark in the news during periods of high enrollment, most notably disagreements between the school's student population and local businesses in the college square shopping center in 2004 and the failed 2006 referendum that included a proposal for building a $12 million parking garage on the site of the current parking lot. due to redistricting and demographic changes (fewer students in the attendance area) in the late 2000s, this problem has largely disappeared as an issue amongst the student body.