Parking Lot Puzzle

[James Patten]

There's a power pole on the north side of the road between the house and road, which sends power to the house.  Probably next year we will centralize power receiving for the entire campus in one place, and run all utilities underground.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

The pole may be seen along the north side of the road in the 5th photo.  As James noted, it's the one Harry installed for the power line to the house.

[Skip Breyfogle]

A couple of thoughts:
The first time we were at the Museum we were traveling with some folks pulling a camper trailer behind their SUV - this parking lot provides sufficient space but should provide wide and reasonably convenient in and out access from Cross Rd as well as parking space.

Handicapped parking in the new lot is fine but I would suggest a couple of designated handicapped parking places closer to Sheepscot Station.

Skip

[John McNamara]

Handicapped parking in the new lot is fine but I would suggest a couple of designated handicapped parking places closer to Sheepscot Station.

Indeed. On pages 67-68 of the 2012 Long Range Plan, Area B is shown as "15-minute parking: The area in front of the shop building will become an area for short term parking, where buses, vans, or special needs vehicles can drop-off/pick up people."

While I expect there would be no problem with a special needs vehicle saying there, the driver or passengers thereof might wish to move it at some point and park near the restrooms for their own convenience.
-John

[Fred Morse]

We were going to move a couple of piles of lumber and cut a couple of trees to complete the parking lot, however, Jeff didn't think he would get that far this year. There is plenty of room to make the parking lot larger. At some point it will have to be made larger to meet up with the woods track.

[Ed Lecuyer]

Mod note- A lengthy discussion regarding the style and placement of a proposed electrical shed has been split:
http://forum.wwfry.org/index.php?topic=2142.0

[Mike Fox]

Thank you Ed, we needed that...

[Mike Fox]

We were going to move a couple of piles of lumber and cut a couple of trees to complete the parking lot, however, Jeff didn't think he would get that far this year. There is plenty of room to make the parking lot larger. At some point it will have to be made larger to meet up with the woods track.

Fred, if you cut the woods around the woods track and make it all parking, won't it then become the parking lot track?  I think there is one lone Pine in the North west corner that would need to go, then the track could stop at the parking lot.

[Stephen Hussar]

[Wayne Laepple]

The screen shot posted by Stephen shows a lot 150 x 200 feet, approximately the same size as the Sheepscot lot. It includes 71 parking spaces, plus a hitching rail at the right end for horse and buggy users. This is the Manheim Township Public Library near Lancaster, Pa. By eliminating the landscaping and the center island, at least one more row of slots could be included, adding perhaps 18 more spaces.

Using the standard numbers for parking lot construction as established by the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, it appears that our lot could theoretically include 100 parking stalls 18 feet deep by 9 feet wide. Roadways between the rows would be 15 feet wide. On the north end, there would be a 25-foot wide roadway  to accommodate bus and camper parking along the north edge while providing a 15-foot roadway for travel, and at the south edge, along Cross Road, the roadway would be 20 feet wide as well.

[John McNamara]

In some previous discussion, there was a parking space idea that I think was based on a railroad parking lot in a New York City suburb. Since the lot was gravel, the spaces couldn't be marked on pavement. Instead, there was a numbered post at the head of each space. In our case, the suggestion was that the numbers wouldn't mean anything other than to suggest that these were parking spaces to which you were supposed to drive in, leaving space for a similarly sized vehicle parallel to you.

[Wayne Laepple]

Probably there would only be a few occasions when the lot would be filled to capacity, like Victorian Christmas and perhaps the annual picnic. Otherwise, parking shouldn't be an issue, especially if there was some signage to direct campers and buses to a designated area. For times of maximum use, lining out the spaces with athletic field lime or even spray paint would probably be effective. If there were some old utility poles or ties to demarcate the rows, that would be helpful.

[John McNamara]

lining out the spaces with athletic field lime

Snow? 

[Wayne Laepple]

Spray paint, or maybe Kool-Aid?