Turn radius

[Overachiever]

Anyone have an idea of what type of turn radiuses would be required for a SS car wash? Seems like longer vehicles with trailers will need a lot of room.

I am trying to repave my parking lot to take advantage of some incentives the city is giving to the area around my car wash but the the zoning/code people are making this project not nearly as straight forward as I expected it to be.

They want a ton of landscaping, and possibly curbing / parking spots. I don't really know where they'd squeeze in any parking spots after how much they've already taken for landscaping. Attached is a screenshot of the asphalt they are wanting me to change to green areas. They say I don't own the existing landscaping islands (by the sidewalk) so that works against me since the only landscaping I'd have then is the tiny little bit on the north side.

I can only imagine what my new yearly landscaping expenses will be, lol... might have to try and do some sort of small yearly patch job to get around from having to do this.

 

[Roz]

I was told to figure 1.5x the length of the vehicle. I just measured the exit area of our bays (from a soil berm to the exit of the bay) and it is 30' which seems to make sense as F150s (which are 20' in length for the base standard model) are able to turn without issue but the larger F250, F350, F450 often need to make a broken turn to exit. The very good drivers of extended bed trucks do not have to break their turn as they clearly know their vehicles and give thought to their exit. We had installed metal bollards to prevent anyone doing a broken turn from damaging the building or equipment. I think any distance below 30' clear of a bay and you will have some frustrated customers. That said we have small buses use our bays, they are able to make it out in a broken turn but those drivers do know their vehicles. Good luck with the town.....