Parking is a special category of Usages. Parking is a polygon based geometry with special properties:

• Parking Type
• Parking provided

<aside> 👉 Learn more in How to draw parking in Giraffe

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Roads & Parking Menu

Access the Roads & Parking menu (Car Icon) in the Draw Palette at the bottom of the app window.

Here, you will find parking, path, and road tools.

• Parking
  • On-Grade parking: Add a flat parking lot
  • Multi-deck parking: Add a multi-level parking structure
  • Underground Parking: Represent parking planned for underground
• Path: Styled for footpath/bike path use.
• Road: Styled for motor vehicle use. Includes options to adjust the width of attached sidewalks.

Parking Types

Each parking usage type has additional special properties. You can also switch the parking usage type once drawn if you change your mind.

On-Grade

• Hardscape Counts towards FAR
• Stack

Underground

Same properties as on-grade, except it does not count towards the Hardscape restrictions for FAR

Multi-level

• Stack
• Levels
• Show/Hide Façade

Control Parking Spaces

The parking count displays in the Urban Calculations tab.

• Parking Provided / Parking Required for the whole project. Hovering the mouse pointer over this reveals a breakdown by parking type and usage.

• Parking Provided is the gross area (GBA) of all parking features multiplied by the number of parking bays per unit area.

  If a parking feature has generated parking bays, these will be counted, multiplied by the number of levels and used as the features parking provided value.

• Parking Required is the net area (GFA) of all building features multiplied by the number of parking bays per unit area.

  Residential buildings calculate the number of parking bays required per dwelling, which is configured in the usage editor (plus a total for visitor parking) instead of calculating by area.

<aside> ⚠️ If an on-grade parking lot is covered by landscape, plaza, road or buildings, it will reduce it's number of parking bays provided in proportion to how much it is covered. Care should be taken when covering on-grade parking with generated bays as this will lead to the map displaying more parking bays than are calculated on the Urban tab.

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