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there's a Costco at the other end (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 116 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Neat, but this is off scale by a factor of about two thirds. Central Park is roughly half a mile wide which means at typical spacing you should be able to fit 330 parking spaces per row. Let's call it an even 300 to be extremely charitable with the aisle down the middle and access ways down both sides. I counted 93 or so (it's a bit muddy) spaces in the closest row that's not clipped by the edges of the frame.

So not only did some asshole pave over Central Park, but apparently it's being exclusively used for monster truck parking.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Don't forget your landscape buffers every so many spaces, to account for all the impermeable surface. I don't know the requirements for New York, but on average it's every 10-15 spaces. Granted, they can always file for an exemption, like Wal Mart.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Is this requirement mainly due to drainage or something else? (I’m guessing “just to make things look nicer” isn’t why?)

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