Nice try, but...

[Yikes]

Whine:
Had to do a property condition assessment of a motel today. They said they had an ADA room, so I asked to see it. It was obviously bootlegged from a previous storage room, ant the entry door "landing" was a ramp that was 3' long and 8" tall.

Once I got inside, the accessible floor plan and features were actually well done. My big problem: the headroom was only 6'-8" throughout. When I asked the current management as to why the headroom was so low, the response basically indicated their logic was along the lines of: no big deal, because hey - - you're in a low wheelchair, so no headroom issues, right?

 

[cda]

Makes sense to me

I read they are building garages bigger to fit your oversize American vehicles


Why not make rooms smaller like in other countries

 

[tmurray]

It's a good thing we as a society don't allow people who use wheelchairs to associate with those who do not. Otherwise they might have a problem with their line of reasoning.

 

[mark handler]

Makes sense to me
I read they are building garages bigger to fit your oversize American vehicles
Why not make rooms smaller like in other countries

293 apartments, but only 12 parking spaces
Limited parking for an 18-story downtown apartment tower
http://www.startribune.com/293-apartments-but-only-12-parking-spaces/293091341/
"...new project, if it proceeds as planned, will be a test of the market's carless tolerability."
"If they don't want to offer parking, it's their choice," "I guess we will see if it works, won't we?"

 

[JCraver]

293 apartments, but only 12 parking spaces
Limited parking for an 18-story downtown apartment tower
http://www.startribune.com/293-apartments-but-only-12-parking-spaces/293091341/
"...new project, if it proceeds as planned, will be a test of the market's carless tolerability."
"If they don't want to offer parking, it's their choice," "I guess we will see if it works, won't we?"

A lot of the new zoning/planning ordinances floating around now are more walk-friendly than they are car-friendly. I'm in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere and our zoning code / development code encourages "shared parking" and "walkability", and has some crazy restrictions on maximum parking numbers. And there is no one in this town that doesn't own a car. Transfer that attitude to a sizable city where maybe you have people that don't own a car, and there you go.

 

[JCraver]

Also, kind of related to that - there's a very cool, well maintained, mostly-vacant office building in a downtown of a city near here with a much larger pop. than ours, that's sitting mostly empty and is for sale for a ridiculously low price. My wife and I looked at it as an investment/rental property - 6 stories, already has elevators and is sprinklered, commercial spaces on 1 and mostly gutted 2 through 6 so apartments would be comparatively easy. But there is NO parking, no way to add it to the site, and no way to buy an adjacent parcel for parking without knocking another building down. So now we know why the price is so low.. If the same building was in a city where folks could legitimately not own a car and get by, it'd sell for whatever he wanted for it.

 

[Yikes]

Reportedly there are at least 3.4 parking stalls for every car in America, and in some suburban areas it's guesstimated around 7+ stalls per car.