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Underground Parking
Underground parking,
either fully or partially below-grade, allows more intense use of
street-level and above-grade areas, or more landscaped area. These
enhance the urban life of Santa Monica and offer greater convenience
and amenity for building users, as well as allowing for more leasable
or salable floor area.
When planning
underground parking areas:
- Provide visual
links to the outdoors to provide a sense of direction.
- Introduce daylight,
particularly near pedestrian entrances and exits.
- Make interiors
logical, inherently guiding users to entrances and exits.
- Enhance security
with good lighting throughout and by eliminating hiding places.
- Integrate long-term
bicycle storage and changing facilities into the parking strategy.
- Design floor-to-floor
heights of at least 8 ft. to permit different uses in future. In
very small sites with high land costs, robotic parking devices that
allow more cars to be stored in a given volume are now available
– with a high cost premium. These reduce circulation areas
needed in standard parking lots, allowing more efficient space use.
Cautions
- Pay close attention
to user safety issues, which are greater than with surface parking.
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