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.