2024-11-24T02:10:21-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/80516778/graphing-parking-charts-out-of-whack-u-s-minimum-parking-regulations Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-08-28T13:38:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rw/rwetcytius16zsc7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Reforming parking policy is an urgent imperative which could have significant positive effects on the natural environment, our cities, the economy, and our society. For many issues, from affordable housing to carbon emissions, it is an obvious solution that has remained hidden in plain sight for too long.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Architect Seth Goodman has taken it upon himself to expose how dramatically parking plays a role in planning, through a series of nifty infographics that show just how much parking space is allotted for a given institution or destination.&nbsp; Inspired by Donald Shoup's <em><a href="http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The High Cost of Free Parking</a>&nbsp;</em>as a student at Rice University, Goodman has created five different charts comparing a city&rsquo;s minimal parking space regulations to the square footage of the institution that the parking accommodates, such as a restaurant or office space. The results show an amazing inconsistency regarding how much space is devoted to parking across different cities.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/rg/rg529g71mq2s6qu3.jpg" title=""></p> <p> In the above graphic, pitting &ldquo;Worship Space vs. Parking Space&rdquo;, the national average for a worship space (6,000 ft2) is compared to the square footage devoted to parking at said space of worship. Fresno, California clocks in at 32,500 ft2 of parking for an average worship space, whereas San Francisco has only a tenth of that, at 3,250. Ke...</p>