Safety Standards
Safety standards for storefronts are established guidelines and regulations that define acceptable levels of safety for the design, construction, and maintenance of storefronts to prevent crashes
Smithfield Vehicle Impact Protective Devices
Midfield, alabama ordinance amendment no. 2071
Requires businesses to place a barrier in front of their building if parking is within 10 feet of the entrance to the facility. Current businesses are grandfathered in and will only have to install a barrier if they make changes to their building or parking lot. The city council passed the law after an SUV crashed into a dentist’s office, killing 6-year-old Camlyn Lee.
Orange county, fl, ordinance 2016-09
Requires childcare facilities to have safety barriers in exposed areas. The measure came as a response to the 2014 death of Lily Quintus, and serious injury of several other children, when a vehicle crashed into a childcare center in the county. Orange County also established the Lily Quintus Childcare Center Vehicle Impact Grant, providing up to $10,000 to assist childcare centers with installing safety barriers in front of their buildings.
City of malibu, ca ordinance no. 403
City passes new parking lot safety standards ordinance. Read ordinance.
City of artesia, ordinance no. 15-817 - california
Requires “vehicle impact protection devices” in existing and future parking lots for head-in spaces within 75 feet of outdoor seating areas. Then-Mayor Pro Tem (now Mayor) Lou La Monte introduced the measure after learning of the Buena Park Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour tragedy.
Massachusetts - state rep carolyn dykema
Requires, among other things, that “vehicle impact protection devices” be installed adjacent to parking spaces that are angled between 30 to 90 degrees relative to an adjacent outdoor pedestrian seating area. The ordinance effort was led by Artesia City Council member Victor Manolo after his mother-in-law was killed and his daughter was severely injured when a vehicle crashed into them in front of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour in nearby Buena Park.
Miami/dade, fl ordinance no. 120887
Twice introduced legislation, in 2013 and 2015, to mandate the installation of barriers between certain parking spaces and retail establishments, but neither bill survived to a full vote.
A risk most people don’t think about by renaissance alliance
Requires that head-in parking located directly adjacent to a storefront be equipped with concrete security planters with a minimum depth of 40 inches, and that buildings located there have ground-floor windowsills placed at a height of 24 to 48 inches above grade.
How safe is your parking lot? By rob reiter and mark wright
Ordinances seek safer storefront parking areas, by mark wright
As driver behavior clashes increasingly with the built environment, Amherst, Miami-Dade, and ASTM International exemplify proactive approaches to changing safety conditions. They can see that America is no longer a “free range” society and have opted to work toward a new balance between unrestrained vehicle movement and public safety.Southern California press coverage of new ordinance to prevent storefront crashes
Vehicle security barriers within the streetscape by cpni
Apm 13th edition/engineering & technology – answers to review questions by national safety council - 2009
Dangerous by design: solving the epidemic of preventable pedestrian deaths (and making great neighborhoods)
Hazardous bus stops identification: an illustration using gis by srinivas s. Pulugurtha
Regulation of landscape architecture and the protection of public health, safety, and welfare by alex p. Schatz, j.D. Lafayette
Reducing vehicle/pedestrian conflicts in parking lots by barrett miller, ohst
Pedestrian protection at convenience stores by barrett c. Miller