Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Studies suggest that 4.0 to 5.0 parking spaces per 1000 square feet of Gross Leasable Area is sufficient for shopping centers.
Cities often implement standards higher than the above ratio.
Shopping centers often increase parking spaces even further above the city minimums. Large paved parking lots have detrimental effects for aesthetics and the environment, and they represent lost opportunities for infill development and benefits to taxpayers. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin suggests that Wisconsin s policy makers consider converting their current minimum retail parking requirements to maximum retail parking requirements, institute shared parking programs, requiring that some portion of large parking lots be devoted to porous-surfaced parking fields, adopting storm water utilities, and instituting new urbanist design standards.