Understanding Big Wave: Lots of parking


By on Mon, February 9, 2009

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Big Wave Facilities Plan
Big Wave Office Park, northern lot. 640 parking spaces covering 6 acres (1,125 required by office zoning). Click for larger image.
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Big Wave Facilities Plan
Big Wave wellness center, southern lot. 73 parking spaces for 70 units. Click for larger image.

Even after watching Neil Merrilees’s excellent video, I was startled by how much space will be devoted to parking at Big Wave.  If you click on the diagrams to see the larger views, you will also see something called a "wetlands trail" following the wetlands that separate the two lots. If you’ve ever walked on a trail alongside an office park—and most people never bother—you know how eerily suburban and corporate an experience it can be. If you’ve ever walked the POST trail on the bluff above Big Wave, you know how dramatic the vistas are in all directions.