Discover how to manage and install accessible parking stalls in a parking layout using the English imperial library. Learn how to adjust and align the dimensions of the stalls, navigate potential challenges, and ensure the consistency of the striping angle for an effective and efficient parking design.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and managing accessible parking stalls using an English imperial library. It emphasizes the importance of correctly aligning the nine-foot stall with the five-foot and eight-foot access aisles.
- The author highlights some challenges that may arise, such as not having enough space for the eight-foot aisle adjacent to the stall. They suggest several solutions, including not using that space altogether or using a regular stall instead.
- Consistency in the striping angle is crucial in parking design. Despite seeming inconsequential, inconsistent striping can lead to issues when the design is installed, underscoring the need for meticulousness in this aspect of the design process.
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When you look at the parking stalls that we have for the accessible parking we have a nine-foot stall and an eight-foot access aisle and then we have a nine-foot stall and a five-foot access aisle and so we're going to have to use types for each one of those here and to do that we'll just do the same process we have been before. So you can see we've got our parking space and we can check to see if the accessible parking space has been loaded in and it doesn't look like it has and that's not a big deal because we'll just go to load family. This will take us to our imperial library and by imperial I mean that's the units we're using; if you were working in a metric environment you'd call it the metric library but we're using the English imperial library here and so then I'll go to my site folder and then parking and in here we've got many different things to work with but we're looking for parking space ADA and so I'll click open and what's cool about this one is we now have a spot that can actually take up this location so this is the nine foot by 18 foot with the five foot aisle and then we have a nine foot by 18 foot with the eight foot aisle so we can start with this one pretty easily just by clicking to place it and then I can align it into its spot and then if I were to take it and copy it down to the next location you can see I now have the nine foot by 18 foot with the five foot aisle and then nine foot with the eight foot aisle but I just need to change the type to the eight foot aisle and now we have it in place and so that gives us these two pretty clearly but it does make it hard for us to go in and add this next one and so what's tricky about that is we can give these that designation of that parking space ADA but we have to make sure that we keep track of it a little bit more clearly so I could copy this one over and you can see that it is going to take up the same space but I don't have a method for not having the eight foot aisle adjacent to it so we have a couple options that we can deal with in this case and one of them would be just not using that space altogether and we could use a regular one so this is an eight-foot-six so I'll start to use a nine footer the nine foot by 18 foot 90-degree and that gives us the count that we need and the same thing on this side this is actually just a regular stall and I need to flip that one over and that gives us the accessible parking that we're looking to add and so here it's a little bit more complicated because we have a lot more to add in there and one of the tricky things is making sure that as you do place these that you set them in a way that allows you to keep the striping at the same angle and so it's kind of a funny thing to be picky about but a lot of times what I'll see is people will mirror these things around and then I'll end up with striping that's going in two different directions and the comment I always get does it really matter and it's like well probably not but it does matter that one time that you do show it that way and it gets installed and then nobody's happy so it's always good to be consistent. Okay, so we don't have a stall here and we don't have a stall here so we need to get those added and you can see how powerful that little space bar trick is because it just really makes this operation very simple and so this one's missing one as well and there we go so now we've added parking to each one of our stalls—oh, missed one right here too; I doubled up that's what I did it's okay though because we just move it over now and I'll just do the window trick here to see yep got them all there and I've got them all there so what we're going to do next is we're going to see how we can tabulate all this and have everything ready to place on a campus plan sheet
