Traditional development calls
for on-street parking. Parking requirements are
generally established on a district-wide basis,
and there are shared parking possibilities. Off-street
parking is often shielded and provided in close
proximity to every building and not concentrated
in one part of an area.
In sprawl, there is no on-street
parking since everything is a parking lot except
the street. Parking becomes the predominate feature.
Large surface lots are detrimental to property
values. Sprawl parking lots are generally unsupervised
and unsafe not because of crime but because the
pedestrian is always exposed in the cars’
environment. There are no shared parking possibilities.
Each lot provides its own parking.
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