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<br />merchandise and equipment, both of which do not have to be provided in the parking lot, but often <br />are. These parking lot uses increase the number of spaces needed in a parking lot beyond what can <br />be predicted by square footage or transaction data. <br /> <br />While difficult to quantify, a parking lot must provide additional spaces to accommodate stray <br />abandoned carts that customers will inevitably leave behind. Assuming that cart return corrals are <br />provided separately (rather than placing them in parking spaces), a certain number of parking spaces <br />will likely be taken out of service by stray carts, so the predicted parking capacity should be <br />increased by a similar number of parking spaces. While this has been observed to be a bigger <br />problem at some Home Depot stores, the two Contractors' Warehouse study locations both had <br />aggressive cart collection schedules (with employees collecting stray carts twice an hour). In <br />general, the equivalent of one parking space was taken out of service at any time by stray carts. <br />Therefore, only one parking space needs to be added to the predicted parking capacity to account for <br />stray carts. <br /> <br />The number of parking spaces used to display merchandise and/or store stockpiles of merchandise <br />and equipment cannot be related to the level of predicted parking demand. This decision must be <br />made on a store-by-store basis, or via a corporate-wide decision. Currently, the number of spaces <br />taken out of service for these purposes varied from zero at one store to 22 spaces at the other. Once a <br />store or corporate decision has been made as to how many parking spaces will be used for displays <br />and/or storage, that number should be added to the number of parking spaces predicted by the rates <br />above. <br /> <br />Parking Study of Two Contractors Warehouse Stores - Final Report <br /> <br />Page 13 <br /> <br />A-21 <br /> <br />31A-39 <br />