Don’t forget your landscape buffers every so many spaces, to account for all the impermeable surface. I don’t know the requirements for New York, but on average it’s every 10-15 spaces. Granted, they can always file for an exemption, like Wal Mart.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Neat, but this is off scale by a factor of about two thirds. Central Park is roughly half a mile wide which means at typical spacing you should be able to fit 330 parking spaces per row. Let’s call it an even 300 to be extremely charitable with the aisle down the middle and access ways down both sides. I counted 93 or so (it’s a bit muddy) spaces in the closest row that’s not clipped by the edges of the frame.
So not only did some asshole pave over Central Park, but apparently it’s being exclusively used for monster truck parking.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is this requirement mainly due to drainage or something else? (I’m guessing “just to make things look nicer” isn’t why?)
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a combination of drainage and allowing some rainwater to flow into the water table. If I recall correctly, areas with limestone aquifers are going to require more permeable space.
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Monster trucks? …The white house wouldn’t have it any other way
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s not off scale, then - it’s just ahead of its time.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Real Cars for real Red Blooded Americans!
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Thanks for confirming my initial thought. I had figured central park was much wider than what my brain was telling me from the picture and the car/building contrast.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York