The map includes surface parking, angled street parking, and above ground parking structures which are marked on OpenStreetMap and/or visible in Google Maps imagery. It does not include parallel street parking, underground parking, and podium parking (parking lots that take up only the first several floors of a building).
The parking ratio is designed to measure a municipality’s parking lot land use. The score is based on the total land area devoted to parking, divided by 75% of the entire district boundary area, excluding 25% for roads and sidewalks.
A low parking ratio is good and means that the city devotes less land in its key districts to parking. Conversely, a high ratio means that more land is dedicated to parking, taking up valuable space and encouraging sprawl.
“District” is a term invented for this map to encompass the most centrally located, and most valuable real estate in a Connecticut Municipality. It is a blanket term for a municipality's central business district, downtown, transit station area, or adjacent connecting neighborhoods of interest. The map is drawn to reasonably cover the commercial area and excludes small scale residential driveways and industrial yards.
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This map was developed by Casey Moran and Tom Broderick with the assistance of Eric Arellano , David Hunt , Tony Jordan , Jeff Randolph , David Beers , and Alex Mayo-Smith. The map data comes from OpenStreetMap . The map is built using Leaflet . The map tiles are developed by Stadia Maps , Stamen Design , OpenMapTiles , and Google Maps.
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