Concepts
Zoning requirements that establish parking lot rules for various developments
Parking Mandates
About 18.6 billion pounds of what are emitted each year?
Carbon Emissions
Using nature such as trees alongside the implementation of recyclable materials during construction is building a what?
Environmentally Friendly Lot
When were most parking lot mandates implemented?
What are some social impacts of parking mandates?
Less walkable neighborhoods
Reliance on cars
Parking competition
Lower income burden
There are roughly how many parking spots for every car in the USA?
6
When water from a parking lot travels to another area
Runoff
Model showing areas used by workers during the day and residents at night
Shared Parking Model
What city had the most automobiles per capita in 1920?
Designated parking requirements do what to a tenant's rent?
Raise It
Why do 40% of people claim they avoid shops?
A Lack of Parking
What is the effect called when a parking lot raises ambient temperatures in a localized area?
Heat Island
How would removing parking minimums affect communities?
Lower housing and development costs
fewer empty lots
building for demand
What era was associated with the automobile and parking mandate boom?
The Post-WW2 Era
When expansion is pushed outward instead of up or down, it is called...
Urban Sprawl
Who invented the automobile?
Karl Benz
How many degrees (in Celsius) can runoff water affect other bodies of water?
15
Conglomerating many amenities into one area in order to benefit a local community and make parking less of a necessity
Mixed-Use Zoning
The first parking lots were for what?
Rail and Bus Stations
Private Clubs
Parking mandates can cause over what percentage of land to be used in development?
More than 50%