Delve into the process of creating a striping plan for a parking area, which marks the concluding segment of the architectural drawings for this project. Understand the purpose and significance of each design element and how they comply with the regulatory requirements, including ADA parking spots.
Key Insights
- The striping plan underlines the flow of movement from the egress stairway to the elevator lobby. It also denotes the two-lane driving area, parking stripes, and parking spots, all following specific dimensions.
- For ADA-compliant parking, the striping plan designates a parking spot 12 feet wide with a 5-foot-wide travel path alongside it. This spot and pathway are clearly marked and have additional details provided in an enlarged plan, reinforcing the focus on accessibility.
- Regulatory agencies utilize the parking striping plan to ensure the correct provision of ADA parking and to analyze the parking count, which is determined by the occupancy load. This helps maintain the balance between overall parking spots and required ADA spots.
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Let's review the striping plan for the parking part B. To let you know, this will be the last of the architectural drawings that we will be reviewing for this project. After this, we will move on to the engineering drawings. The base background for this drawing is a standard drawing file.
You can see the column grids and the dimensions at the perimeter of the image. If you remember, this is an egress stairway that we discussed earlier. So the striping plan is showing the designated path of travel for people leaving the stairwell to go to the elevator lobby up here.
There is a handicapped ramp here that goes over alongside the handicapped parking spot. There are required dimensions, so the ADA parking spot needs to be 12 feet wide and it needs to have a path of travel that is 5 feet wide alongside it. There is an enlarged plan of this at image 2 on sheet A801.
There is a minimum requirement of 24 feet for a two-lane driving area. You can see that we have a column grid here and this is showing that the parking stripes protrude two feet beyond the column grid. We're showing here a parking space that is 18 feet deep and again the parking stripes protrude two feet beyond construction grid.
There is an enlarged plan, image 3, page A801. We're seeing similar information here. Column grid, parking stripes, 18 feet deep, 24 feet for the travel.
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We have yet another parking spot here, the stripes, and then that has access over here to the sidewalk. The purpose of the parking striping plan is to provide fundamental striping information. The regulatory agencies will regularly review this to make sure that ADA parking is appropriately provided and they will also analyze parking count based upon occupancy load, which drives the number of overall parking spots and also the number of ADA spots that are required.