The Parking Lot Area (PLA) polygon should be drawn to include all parking spaces in the parking lot and the access lanes used to reach each parking space. To prevent creating overly complex polygons and unnecessary geometry points, small medians or other curbed areas may be overlapped by the polygon and not cut out by extra geometry points. For multi-level garages, only the footprint of the structure should be outlined.
Parking lots should never be attached, snapped or have their geometry extremely close to roads as this tends to make editing them difficult. Avoid including or touching any roads outside the parking lot. If a lot spans both sides of a street (excluding Parking Lot Roads), it must be mapped so the polygon does not overlap the street. This may require drawing the lot as separate places. If the lot is elevated above the street and the lot actually covers the street, then the PLA may overlap the street as well.
The entry/exit location should be added to the place and adjusted to the appropriate location.
The following are examples of Parking Lot Areas with sufficient and excessive detail:
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