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Urambo Tauro
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06/14/2018 at 13:59 |
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Not a fan of that planter (it’s taking up a parking spot!) but I’m digging the disco mixer.
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> Urambo Tauro
06/14/2018 at 14:35 |
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So, I do civil design here in Austin. I’ve done a number of parking lot layouts. One requirement that City of Austin has laid down is the necessity of having a tree planter for every ten parking spaces in a row. So typically, you’ll lay out your array of 9'x18' parking aisles, and then start counting ten, and turning the 11th parking space into a curbed landscape area.
I’d like to see some funky owner or landscape architect do something where they take the upside-down car cum planter and place that in every 11th space instead of a mini median. Not only would it follow our oft-maligned credo of keeping Austin weird, but it would also make planning the parking lots MUCH easier.
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Urambo Tauro
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06/14/2018 at 14:52 |
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Good point. On second thought, I like it!
Especially because I’ve noticed that when there’s a curb where a parking line would be, it actually takes away part of the walking space. An average car width of 6', centered in a 9' wide parking space, should leave about 1.5' on either side of the car. So two cars, properly parked, cooperate to leave about 3' of room between vehicles- that’s enough room for walking, opening doors, shopping carts, etc... But curbs tend to cut off half of that access space, and I rarely (if ever) see end spots made extra wide to accommodate this (aside from handicap parking, that is).
Curbs also tend to eliminate the need for a painted line, so the placement of a line next to this planter helps guide drivers to park their car in such a way that still leaves room on that side for access.
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> Urambo Tauro
06/14/2018 at 15:00 |
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Sure, it’s funky and subversive, but yeah, there’s also an inherent practicality to parking next to a car, upside-down or not.
Plus, they don’t have to be placed in any static pattern. You could randomize their locations across a parking lot.
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Urambo Tauro
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06/14/2018 at 16:05 |
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Y’know, I was thinking about writing an Oppo post about parking lot design, because I think it’d be neat to have some discussions about elements like space and aisle dimensions and why they’re important. But I bet you’d be a lot more qualified for that. Have you already written something like that, or had an AMA? It’d be a great topic.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
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06/14/2018 at 16:32 |
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There is/was a ball of Grand Wagoneer in Pittsburgh.
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> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
06/14/2018 at 16:48 |
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That is pretty damn incredible.
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> Urambo Tauro
06/14/2018 at 17:00 |
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No, I can’t say that I’ve written anything on the topic before. I don’t really have an interesting angle on the topic, but if there’s something you’d like to discuss, I’m happy to collaborate and lend you my knowledge.
Feel free to contact me;
pip bip - choose Corrour
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06/15/2018 at 07:48 |
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that poor Renault 5