Compact Stall

A compact stall is a reduced-dimension parking space sized for smaller vehicles, a supply strategy whose usefulness rises and falls with the actual vehicle fleet. In a parking facility:

  • The American fleet’s drift toward SUVs and trucks has made heavy compact percentages a daily enforcement problem.

Considerations

  • Where used, compacts belong where misparking does least harm: short bays, end conditions, low-turnover areas. Stripe for the fleet you have, not the fleet the code remembers.
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