Edmond is a large city a short distance north of Oklahoma City. The city is rated as one of the best places to live in Oklahoma, primarily due to its family-friendly style. Edmond features some of the best public schools in the state, making it perfect for young families looking to settle down. Additionally, Edmond boasts superbly low crime rates compared to the national averages. One of the greatest parts of the city is the fact that housing prices stay close to the national median, while still rating as a great city nationally.

Edmond contains a variety of amenities available to its residents, including many shops, stores, and restaurants. With every business comes the need for a fresh-looking parking lot, which we at Parking Lot Striping OKC are glad to provide. Our professional and talented teams can supply you with a clean and inviting parking lot bound to attract the eyes of many customers. We would love to stripe your Edmond parking lot, so give us a call at (405) 588 - 8422, or fill in the form to the right for a FREE quote relating to your parking lot needs.

The ADA as passed in 1990 by the American Congress gave people living with disabilities protection from inequity as a result of their disabilities. ADA now expects employers to make sure their handicap stalls are ADA compliant.  
The existing ADA handicap stall compliance standards are delineated in the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, making all the available physical construction and alterations subjected to these requirements now.  
Here are a number of the major points related to ADA-compliant parking lots. 
 

• Accessible Parking - This should be sited at the shortest suitable road to the building. This may not automatically be the parking spaces physically nearest to the building, but spaces that provide the easiest access to the entrance of the building. ​

• Fewer than 25 Spaces Parking Lot – The lot must be accessible, even if it has one space only. In addition, one more accessible space is necessary for each of the additional 25 spaces. 

• 501 to 1,000 Spaces Lots – For these types of lots, accessible spaces should make up 2% of the whole sum or total. 
  

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• Lots that have 1,001 Spaces or More - 20 spaces are required to be accessible, in addition to one for every 100 spaces (or part of 100 spaces) that is more than 1,000. These numbers are established lot by lot. Therefore, each lot is considered individually, even if three separate parking lots are available on one site. 

• Van Accessible Stalls – ADA states that a minimum of one in every six accessible stalls must be van accessible. 

• A van-accessible Space – This should be 8 feet wide and adjacent to an 8-foot access aisle for a total of 16 feet. The accessible space for a van must be at a least 8 feet wide, measured from the middle of each boundary stripe.  

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•  The Shortest Accessible Route - There must be accessible spaces located on the shortest accessible route between a parking and the building it is serving. ​

• Access Aisles – An adjacent access aisle of at least 5 feet wide will serve accessible stalls. Two spaces can be used for a common access aisle except for angled van accessible stalls that need their own access aisle on the right side of the vehicle. 

 

• Ground or Floor Surface – In this case, the access aisles must be sited at the level with the parking spaces they are serving. Modifications in levels are not allowed. An exception to this rule is for slopes that are not steeper than 1:48, which shall be allowed at the aisles and stalls. This is a fairly common violation.  

 

• Accessible Stall Dimensions – Standard van-accessible stalls must be at least 11 feet wide or at least 8 feet wide with an 8-foot wide access aisle, while accessible stalls must be at least 8 feet wide for it to be ADA compliant. 

 

• Identification Signs - Identification signs for parking space shall consist of International Symbol Accessibility. In order words, signs identifying van parking spaces shall have “Van Accessible” as its designation. These signs shall be 60 inches minimum higher than the finish floor or ground surface, to be measured to the base of the sign.  

 

• Vertical Clearance – A vertical clearance of a minimum of 98 inches must be provided by parking spaces for access aisles, vans, and vehicular routes serving them. Van-accessible stalls are permitted to be grouped together on the ground floor instead of through all the floors. This gives room for lesser vertical clearance and shallower floor to floor heights at the upper floors. 

 

• Van Accessible Stalls – ADA stated that one-sixth of all accessible stalls must be van accessible. 

 

• Accessible Stall Dimensions – Standard van-accessible stalls must be at least 11 feet wide or at least 8 feet wide with an 8-foot wide access aisle, while accessible stalls must be at least 8 feet wide for it to be ADA compliant. 

 

​Traffic Markings or Parking Lot Striping is done to get an organized flow of traffic and mark the parking stalls properly to avoid any rush. To have effective and easily identifiable parking strips, bright and durable paints and colors are used. Line striping is done for stalls; arrows are for entrances, exits, and for the directional flow on parking lots. Space for handicap parking is allotted separately, and lines for fire lane areas are also required to mark clearly. Usually, water-based acrylic traffic paints are used to get the striping done. There are professional line striping contractors available to get the parking lot striping done correctly. 

​When looking for the paint for your OKC parking lot striping, you will see a lot of options available in the market. There are water-based acrylics, solvent based alkyd resin paints, solvent based chlorinated rubber, and several other options as well. So far the most commonly used paint is the water-based acrylic. This paint is preferred since it gives excellent durability, high brightness, and visibility, and are also environmentally friendly as compared to other paints. Water-based acrylic colors are not only preferred for parking lots, but various roads and highways markings are also done using the same kind of paint. 

​The parking line striping follows specific dimensions for straight and angled parking. Throughout the state, the same dimensions are followed. Depending on the total area which is available to create a parking lot, the markings and angles can be chosen. Usually, in the US, these dimensions are decided to accommodate a parking space comprising an area of 9’ x 18’ with reasonable space for vehicles to move in and out of the area. The ADA Act in America has a compulsion to have a proper amount of handicapped-accessible parking stalls irrespective of the size of the parking lot. The parking stalls for disabled people are marked differently than the usual parking stalls and are painted with white and blue colors. A metal handicap sign is also required to be installed at each handicapped parking stall. Typically in a normal parking lot of 25 stalls, one should be for handicap. 

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