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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
It seems rather obvious that they should be building more parkades rather than paving over more fields.  Heck they could very well quadruple the amount of parking on that campus using half the space, plus people would end up not walking too far to and from their car. |
Usually I’m the last person to defend surface parking but I don’t think it’s actually so black and white here.
The first issue is that parkades are exorbitantly expensive, much more so than surface parking. Because they have ample space, why not pave out rather than up? The counter argument is that paving green space has a negative effect on the local environment. But an environmental argument can also be made against a parkade for the enormous carbon emissions associated with concrete.
The other problem, well noted by Truenorth, is that there is an urgent need for more parking immediately, so whether or not they decide to begin the process of building another parkade, they need more parking onsite, now—only the grass field can fulfill that urgent need.
I’d love to see a cost/benefit analysis on this, but more reports is the last thing our government needs.
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