Ridge Hill Parking Master Plan

Ridge Hill Master Plan is a project aimed at revamping a mixed-use development, mainly composed by retail and office land use, located in Yonkers, State of New York, USA. The development is object of a twenty-years phasing renovation intended at reconfiguring the whole area, by adding residential and cultural functions, and by improving the overall user-experience with identifiable district and the pedestrianization of main retail streets. The objective of the project is to transform a fragmented shopping mall, accessed mainly by private cars, into an organic development, where soft-mobility would be the main mode of internal movement. In this framework, the circulation and the parking strategy plays a major role in the planning process, since with the added square footage, the existing parking provision could not accommodate all the demand.

Systematica supported Sherwood Design Engineers in the strategic choices needed to create a pedestrian-friendly circulation and developed the parking strategy for each planning phase of the project. The first approach was to challenge the approved parking provision, by applying a shared-parking strategy, in which the same spot could be used by different users during different moments of the day. A mixed-use development is experienced by many user typologies: sharing the provision among the time-related demand peaks enables to plan for efficiency and compactness. The result was a phase-based implementation of diffused basement-parking, located with the objective of allowing a walking distance not greater than 5 minutes from all functions.