Parking Consulting
Giffels Webster helps clients with developing/redeveloping parking areas in an efficient and safe manner. In addition, we assist communities with the preparation of traffic circulation plans, access management plans, bicycle and non-motor master plans, safety studies, and traffic impact studies.
Giffels Webster has extensive experience in the planning, design, and regulation of parking, including but not limited to the:
- Evaluation of shared-parking potential in downtown Rochester; a block-wide, new, mixed-use development in downtown Royal Oak; a shopping center / cinema in Taylor; and a multi-story, mixed-use building proposed in Birmingham.
- Preparation or revision of numerous zoning ordinances dealing, in part, with parking supply and design requirements by land use type. Drafting of shared-parking methodology for an emerging downtown, and new parking design standards for several communities.
- Parking requirement and/or conceptual design studies for both public and private clients, including the cities of Flushing, Woodhaven, and Lathrup Village; Shelby Township; MDOT (as part of the M-24 access management study); Bon Secours and Cottage Hospitals; and several shopping centers (including one in downtown Farmington).
