This article provides a detailed walkthrough of sheet number C3.1, the site plan, specifically focusing on the new building's footprint, surrounding infrastructure, and parking design. Various elements such as Meets and Bounds property information, North Arrow, detention tanks along with their uses are discussed.
Key Insights
- The article gives an in-depth analysis of the site plan, including the footprint of the new building, the work area, and future retail or restaurant areas.
- Infrastructure details like the parking area's ingress and egress points, dimension of parking stalls, driving aisle width, and water retention system are explained. Additionally, accessibility features like ADA parking spots and paths of travel are highlighted.
- The article also explains the importance and functionality of various on-site elements, such as detention tanks used to attenuate storm water flows, berms for water control, and the zoning-setback rules for building construction.
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I hope you enjoyed learning about Meets and Bounds in our last video. Now what we're going to do is to discuss sheet number C3.1, the site plan. We have the North Arrow at the top, just like before.
And we have the same parcel. We have the Meets and Bounds property information. What we're showing in this drawing, though, is the footprint at the first floor of the new building.
You can see there's the work area out here in yellow. And it goes in on three directions. So let's zoom into the drawing and learn some more.
When construction is finished on the project, this road will once again be open. This is one of the main entrances into the parking area. You can enter on this side and exit on the other.
There is a ramp that goes up to the higher levels of parking. Those ramps are above water retention systems. So these areas that are post-shaded or shaded in solid colors are detention tanks and vaults used to attenuate peak stormwater flows.
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So they're storage areas for water. They're in the ground. They're structurally very strong.
People will come up the ramp, drive over the vaults, and continue up to the next level. Let's go back to the entrance and let's just zoom in a bit. You can see that they have a mirror so that people can see people coming up the ramp.
They've provided dimensions for the parking stalls. So the typical parking stall is 9 feet wide and 18 feet deep. We don't always see the 18-foot dimension everywhere, but that's the standard parking stall size.
As we move through this area, you can see they're showing a typical driving aisle width of 24 feet. That's very normal. I'm going to pan up a little bit more.
So again, this is one of the ways that people can access the guest elevator corridors. There's a walkway alongside this other entrance at the back of the building. So again, there's an entrance on the back.
There's an entrance on the front. There's parking. Here is a future retail or restaurant area.
If we look up here, another future retail or restaurant area. We have some back of house offices in through there. These lines in light blue represent a berm, again, to control water since we're at a relatively low elevation.
And again, in Part A of the building, we have many, many parking spaces that are detailed. And we're also showing the width that's going between the different parking spaces. You'll notice near the entrance to the lobby, we have an ADA parking spot with access to right here.
There's another ADA parking spot with access over here. There are markings here indicating a handicapped path of travel. And then there's a pedestrian path of travel marked on the floor.
Again, you can see our meets and bounds drawings and the property lines right here. We're seeing the property line.
We're seeing distances to the building. This measurement is to the edge of the balcony. There's a dimension over here that would be 19 feet 4. So that's undoubtedly a zoning setback, requiring the building to respect a certain distance away from the property line.
Please feel free to spend a few more minutes enjoying this drawing. It's very typical of civil engineering site plans. I'll see you in our next vid.
