After an overwhelming vote of a small minority of the students at Chico State University, campus officials will again look at a proposal to deny parking permits to students who live too close to the school.

During the Associated Students election, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, an advisory proposal calling on the campus administration to refuse to sell parking permits to those living within a mile of campus won with just over 70 percent of those voting in favor of the measure.

But out of something more than 15,000 students, only 2,927 individuals voted on the measure, and 2,060 were in favor of it.

The measure itself was purely advisory. On Friday Dennis Graham, university vice president for business and finance, said the idea will be handed over to Kaku Associates Inc., a Southern California firm that began a traffic and parking analysis of Chico State early last fall.

Graham said this is not the first time there has been a proposal to deny parking permits to students living too near the university.

"It was once previously considered, and it was rejected because there were so many needs for exceptions," explained the vice president.

Planners realized students who lived too close to campus, but worked too far away to make schedules mesh would seek exemptions. Students with responsibility at the university farm off Hegan Lane would have to be excused. Students with a wide range of potential circumstances all would need to be allowed permits.

"It becomes what their daily life activity is, so there was this unending request for exceptions. On the other hand there is a shortage of parking, so what do you do?" said Graham.

He said when Kaku did its traffic analysis on campus last September or October, "They said it was extremely high, the highest they had ever seen."

The final report, which Graham said would include suggestions for parking solutions, funding for those options, and how to better allocate the existing parking sites, should be finished before the end of the semester.