Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
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Is there any criteria for sizing planter strips at the ends of parking isles? We are designing a parking lot and have limited room and want to minimize them as much as possible.





RE: Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
Dik
RE: Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
RE: Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
Dik
RE: Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
RE: Parking Lot Planter Strip Sizing
Based on the limited data you presented (gravel parking lot) I would assume the local regulations are lax and you may not need planters to satisfy code requirements. My assumptions are based on commercial development experience (if they allow gravel parking chances are they won't require extensive plantings).
Parking delineation is another matter entirely.
Nate the Great
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For internal islands, I've used various sized radii depending on the width of the island you want to use. Usually it will match the width of a parking stall at about 9-feet, so that is a face of curb radius of 4.5-feet so they are tangent in the center of the 9-foot wide island.
The City of Frisco, Texas has some special requirements for parking islands (can look it up online) that I've found innovative. Basically if the total surface area of the island is below a certain threshold, a special fill is required outside (and under) the curb.
This is to allow for root zone growth of trees when the island is small, allowing for the tree to grow larger in a constrained area..at least that is the theory.
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End islands also serve to protect the car parked in the last stall. Eliminating end islands completely can lead to accidents where a parked car is sideswiped by a car in the drive aisle, or is hit by the rear fender of a car turning into the drive aisle from the parking aisle or vice versa. Let's face it: there are a lot of big vehicles on the road today - full-sized SUVs and pickups and minivans - and a fair percentage of the people driving them have not adequately adjusted their driving habits to accommodate the size of their vehicle.
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