Parking Spots

2009-11-01 10:37:16 -0800
Originally uploaded by shotsy

Parking, so much to say. Let's start with size.

• For a typical parking space, surface or structured, a spot can range between 320 sf to 430 sf gross per space, including aisles, corners, columns, landscaping, disabled, mechanical, ticketing, and more.
• 430 sf/space is for surface parking (no structure) and odd shaped sites with generous landscaping. This maximum size works out to about 100 spaces per acre (43,560 sf/acre / 430 sf/space = about 100 spaces/acre).
• 320 sf/space is for a large, efficient parking structure with clear span, double loaded, 90 degree parking, and parking around the entire perimeter.
  
• A relatively good number for standalone parking structure is 350 sf/space.
  
• For surface parking and parking structure, with building(s) above a useful size to estimate with is 400 sf/space.
• These parking spaces assume that the spaces are typically 90 degrees, 9 feet wide by 18 feet long with aisles of at least 24 feet wide. That would make a double loaded 90 degree parking bay 60 feet wide clear.