Event Parking
Note that there is no free parking on the SFU Burnaby Campus. In addition, Parking Services both tickets and impounds vehicles found to be parking in reserved parking spaces or in safety violations. This information is a synopsis, please contact our offices or consult the parking regulations for more detailed information.
Event Attendees
SFU Parking Services operates parking at the SFU Burnaby campus. If your event is located at one of SFU’s other campuses, different rules & regulations will apply. Contact your event organizer/host/sponsor for more information.
Your event organizer/host/sponsor may or may not have made special parking arrangements for your event. If they have not made such arrangements, SFU’s regular parking policies apply and you may park in any of SFU’s visitor lots or the visitor parkade subject to the regular parking rates. For more information please see our visitor parking information page.
If your event organizer/host/sponsor has made special parking arrangements the arrangements will generally fall under one of two options:
- They will have provided you with identification or a parking scrip to display in your vehicle in order to receive an event parking rate, OR,
- They will have arranged with parking services for the event to pay for parking on your behalf.
In either case, please be sure to park in the area designated for the event otherwise standard SFU parking fees and policies apply.
Event Organizers, Hosts, Sponsors
Most events at SFU should be organized through the Meeting Events and Conference Services (MECS) department. MECS will co-ordinate with Parking Services to meet the parking needs for your event. Parking will be subject to availability and we require requests to be submitted a minimum of 1 month prior to the event.
Parking Services reviews event parking under three broad categories:
- SFU events.
- Non-SFU events sponsored by SFU.
- Non-SFU events that are not sponsored by SFU.
Depending on the type of event, date, length, and expected number of attendees (vehicles) Parking Services may be able to offer event parking rates. Those rates will be administered in one of two ways:
- The event organizer/host/sponsor can arrange to make a bulk payment for parking for all attendees.
- The event organizer/host/sponsor can arrange with Parking Services to have attendees self-identify.
Alternatively, the event organizer/host/sponsor can leave all parking arrangements to the individual attendees.
For more detailed information please contact Parking Services directly.