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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ yeah, 4 spaces for every 1,000 SF of retail is a kooky high ratio for a city.
A standard parking space is 9'x18', so 162 SF.
x4 is 648 SF. throw in space to pull in/back out and you're essentially at 1,000 SF, so yeah, more or less 1 to 1.
Is that really a city-wide rule for all of Houston? If so, no wonder its commercial corridors are generally so damn abysmal from an urbanism perspective.
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300 square feet is a baseline. For smaller (inefficient) parking garages the number can easily get over 400 or even 500.
Urban cities have walkable retail and bar districts that have some parking but very little, and where most businesses don't have their own. Maybe there are a few bus lines, 5,000 residents and 2,000 workers are within a 1/4-mile radius, there are a few hundred off-street parking spaces plus the street parking, plus Uber...