Alexis Narvaez Penelope Cox Civil Engineering and Architecture

Parking Lot Requirements Essay For our landscaping as well as parking plan we needed to comply with the codes and regulations in the Noblesville Code of Ordinances and the Unified Land Development Ordinance for the City of Noblesville, Indiana Code of Ordinances for regulations related to parking. Parking areas, to a certain extent, create the first impression for first-time visitors. Parking lots should be creatively designed to appear as part of the surrounding landscape and to contribute to a positive image. Landscaping can be used around parking lots to integrate them into the surrounding area and can be used within the lots to break up the visual impact of extensive pavement and cars. We tried to make our landscaping visually appealing to the people of Noblesville. We also wanted our parking to make it easy for our people to enter and exit the library as well. The number of parking spaces that were required for our Noblesville Library were calculated by taking the total area of our building (124 feet x 76 feet= 9,424 feet) and dividing it by the required parking spaces for institutional use. We found our number of required parking spaces from Table 9, of Section 159.142 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. The number of required parking spaces for a library is 1 per 300 square feet. We divided 9,424 feet by 300 and got 31.4, which rounded to 32 parking spaces required for our library. The distance the parking lots are set back from the property line was found on Section 4.B.1 of the Unified Land Development Ordinances for Noblesville. It states That the property of the proposed use does not fall within one hundred (100) feet of the property line of an existing residential land use or platted residential subdivision. We will be sure to comply with these codes when we do our parking plan and landscaping plan as well. The size of the parking space width that should be used for 60 degree parking spaces is 9 feet. The aisle width that should be used for our Keystone Library Building parking lot is 24 feet, from Table 10, Section 159.143 of the

Noblesville Code of Ordinances. Entrances have to be at least 25 feet from the joining residential property, 10 feet from a non-residential property line, or 45 feet from an intersection, from Section 159.143 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. The maximum driveway width that can be used for a non-residential development is no more than 30 feet, unless you have 3 lanes marked and you can have 36 feet. As quoted from the Noblesville Code of Ordinances, Section 159.143 No single non-residential or multi-family driveway shall exceed a width of 30 feet at the right-of-way line. However, a driveway 36 feet in width at the right-of-way line shall be permitted provided pavement markings indicate three separate lanes, one for ingress and two for egress. An entrance/exit divider not to exceed ten feet in width shall not be counted towards the width limit. Non- residential driveways are limited to one per street frontage and shall be approved by the Engineer having jurisdiction thereof. The drainage runoff requirement for parking and driveway areas, from Section 159.143 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances, is Such parking areas shall be graded and properly drained in such a manner that there will be no free flow of water onto either adjacent property or public sidewalks. Any runoff generated by such improved areas shall be disposed of in appropriate drainage facilities. The requirement for parking lot lighting is, as quoted from Section 159.143, is A minimum of one foot-candle of illumination shall be provided throughout the parking lot. Illumination of off-street parking areas shall be arranged and/or shielded so as not to reflect direct rays of light onto adjacent properties or streets, pursuant to 159.200 through 159.208. The number of accessible parking spaces required is 2, from Table 11, Section 159.144 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. In our parking plan we used 2 accessible parking spaces, which were required, as close to our ingress and egress of the building as possible to ensure the care of the public. We marked the required parking spaces with a handicapped symbol as shown on our parking plan. We also included ramps to the building as well for pedestrians using wheelchairs and/or other mobility devices. The ramps we used were 5 feet. The requirements for ramps were located in Section 159.078 Transportation System and are as follows: Ramps suitable to the safe movement of mobility impaired persons shall be provided by the

developer. A ramp shall not have a slope of greater than one foot rise in 12 feet, or 8.33%, or four degrees 50 minutes. The specific design of the ramps shall conform with the illustrations of the Noblesville Standards and shall conform to the recognized standards of the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), the American National Standards Institute, Inc., and the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare, or any other applicable agency. A loading area is required for the

Keystone Library Building, according to Section 159.147 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. We made sure to incorporate area on our parking plan for the loading and unloading to be safe and easily accessible from the vehicle to the library as effectively as possible. Also, the Keystone library requires only one loading berth, according to Section 159.147, Table 13 Schedule of Off-Street Loading Requirements of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. A Class D parking lot is required for the Keystone Library because the proposed quantity of parking spaces will be greater than 200, according to Section 159.184 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. Some of the overall interior parking lot landscape requirements are as follows: Planting Islands: 5% of the required landscaping is a Class B parking lot must be dedicated to planting islands. All single row parking landscape islands and peninsulas shall be a minimum of 18 square feet in area with a minimum width of 9 feet measured back from curb to curb. Each island shall contain a minimum of one canopy tree and five evergreen or deciduous shrubs, or ornamental grasses. For double row parking landscape islands, these values are doubled. All interior parking rows shall be terminated at both ends with landscape islands. How we calculated for the 11% of the landscaping for our parking lot is: We used the proportion 11/100 = x/2200, and we got x= 2420 feet squared. We chose 11% from Table 12.0.5.C.1 Interior Parking Lot Landscape Requirements. We tried to use the required plantings one each island on our parking lot for the Keystone Library. Perimeter Parking Lot Landscaping: The landscape requirements identified in Table 12.0.5.D.2 of Section 159.184 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances provides for the first enhancement of all parking lots by recognizing 2 district conditions. Other landscaping requirements contained in the Noblesville Code of Ordinances, Section 159.184 include: Interior Landscaping, Sharing Parked Facilities and Parking Garages.

The requirements for trash receptacle enclosures include: All trash receptacles shall be completely screen by a wall on three sides matching the materials, color, and architecture of the primary structure located on the parcel. The fourth side shall consist of a metal gate or other similar materials completely hiding the trash receptacle. The enclosure must measure a minimum of six feet in height or two feet above the height of the trash receptacle, whichever is greater. Trash receptacle enclosures shall not be located in front of any building, adjacent to a collector, arterial, or expressway or adjacent to any residential use. These codes are based on Section 159.187 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances. We made sure to allow space for out dump trucks to get around to where they needed to be on our property in a safe and efficient manner to property dispose of our waste. We made sure to put our parking plan sketches in color before they were transferred on the out 3D Revit 2013 software to provide the viewer of an organized, easy to follow draft of our parking lot plan in our engineer journals. We included sidewalks to the inside of our library as well. On our parking plan we tried to make everything in proportion to one another as well. Our parking spaces were placed to ensure the best entrance and exit of the public from their cars to the building without any complications. Our rectangular retention/detention pond is located to the west of the building on our landscaping plan with a length of 19 feet, a width of 5 feet and a depth of 8 feet. In our calculations, we first calculated for the area by using the formula V= The V is equivalent to the volume of the storm

water in acre feet. A is equivalent to the drainage area (area of the site) in acres. Our library is 124 feet by 76 feet and the area is 9,492 feet. Our drainage area is equivalent to four times the size of our actual building, so our drainage area is 9,492 feet 4 feet = 37,696 . We had to

convert the area in feet to acres for our equation so we had to do

and got .0865 acres,

because there are 43,560 feet in an acre. This shows the area of drainage was less than one acre. We calculated for Volume by doing area of our pond by using the formula: Ap = . We solved for the

The Ap is the area of the pond. The V represents the storm water volume in acre feet. The d represents the average depth of the pond. We wanted our depth of the pond to be 8 feet, so it wouldnt been too deep for there to be complications with public sa fety, but deep enough to hold our water. We solved this by doing Ap = .0021625 acres. We can change this = 94.1985

to feet to calculate for our length and width by doing .0021625 acres

feet, which we rounded to 95 feet for our Area of Pond. We chose the values of 19 and 5 feet, because they are both factors of 95 that would make our area comply with our calculations. In conclusion, the length is 19 feet, the width is 5 feet, and the height is 8 feet. We wanted our pond to be rectangular so it would match the shape of the building and comply with our modern design.