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I guess it's parking space that's the reason for why SV office spaces don't go very high vertically?
by johansch 10y ago
I guess it's parking space that's the reason for why SV office spaces don't go very high vertically?
- jonknee 10y agoZoning. Going higher doesn't change your parking needs. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-laws-are-strangling-silicon-valley/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-law...
- spicyj 10y agoGoing higher would generally mean you need more parking for the amount of land the building takes up.
- jonknee 10y agoSure, but you're building on a dramatically smaller piece of land so your total overall parking requirement doesn't change. 4 stories of 100,000sqft vs 40 stories of 10,000sqft hold the same number of workers, but the tower only uses 1/10th of the footprint. The fun part is when you start building a lot of these towers very close to each other and then all of a sudden your parking needs plummet because transit is way more effective. It's not going to happen in the Valley though, they're stuck with gross office parks.