Lethbridge College
PROJECT NAME
Redesign of Lethbridge
North-Side Walmart Parking Lot
The redesigned parking lot of the North-Side Walmart.
PROJECT SUMMARY
Our project involved working with the City of Lethbridge to
measure the efficiency of the community's north-side WalMart parking lot by counting vehicles entering and exiting
the premises on a half-hourly basis.
We chose this topic because parking lots pave over large
expanses of city land; this can harm the environment while
disrupting pedestrian travel. Our hope was to better quantify the efficiency of these large open-space lots to help
the city justify, plan and pass a bylaw establishing a maximum parking-space-to-square-meter-of-building ratio. The
existing land-use bylaw is limited to stipulating a minimum
number of required parking stalls.
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Our findings led us to conclude that the parking lot was
highly inefficient, using only 40 per cent of the total stalls
at the peak of the study period. This supports the notion of
embedding in the bylaws a reasonable parking-stall ratio.
Our results also allowed us to recommend a redesign of
the existing lot in such a way as to incorporate more green
space, decrease the number of stalls, and improve overall
efficiency.
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