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= ** Parking Lot Design Performance Task  ** = ** Goal: ** Design a parking layout for the new teacher, staff, and visitor parking lot at the high school. The layout must meet the parking needs of the school and the American Disability Act (ADA) requirements. ** Role: ** You are the parking lot designer. You have been asked to create a parking layout for the new parking lot being built at the high school. ** Audience: ** You will be presenting your parking lot layout to the school building committee which includes the principal, a teacher representative, the site maintenance lead, and the construction contractor representative. ** Situation: ** Your school is constructing a new parking lot for teachers, staff, and visitors. The school building committee has created a list of requirements and constraints for the parking lot and has asked you to create the layout to be used for painting the parking lines.
 * The available lot is 300 ft by 60 ft.
 * The parking spots must be in a 90 degree layout with a 24 foot aisle between the two rows of cars.
 * Each parking spot must be between 8 and 10 feet and width and 18 feet long.
 * The lot should include at least 55 non-handicap parking spots. More spots are desired if feasible. The designer should balance value additional spaces with the safety provided by wider spaces.
 * The lot must include a 6 foot pedestrian aisle in the row of parking closest to the school.
 * T he lot must include 2 spots reserved for maintenance vehicles. These spots must each be 12 feet wide.
 * The lot must be compliant with ADA requirements. (See http://www.ehow.com/about_4697551_ada-regulations-handicap-parking.html.)

                             <span style="height: 63.75pt; margin-left: 330pt; margin-top: 34.85pt; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: 251678720;">  <span style="height: 63.75pt; margin-left: 297pt; margin-top: 34.85pt; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: 251679744;">  <span style="height: 24.4pt; margin-left: 171.75pt; margin-top: 4.45pt; mso-height-relative: margin; mso-width-relative: margin; position: absolute; width: 93.75pt; z-index: 251680768;">  <span style="height: 179.25pt; margin-left: 6in; margin-top: 35.25pt; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: 251656190;">  <span style="height: 19.15pt; margin-left: 417pt; margin-top: 99.1pt; mso-height-relative: margin; mso-width-relative: margin; position: absolute; width: 41.25pt; z-index: 251661312;"> ** Product: **You must ** create **a layout of the parking lot which shows the dimension and location of each parking space. (Bloom’s Taxonomy – Creating) You must write an accompanying memo to the school building committee that does the following: ** 1.  ** Explains how your plan meets the requirements laid out for you by the committee. (Bloom’s Taxonomy – Understanding) ** 2.  ** Discusses the trade-off between safety (width of parking spaces) and number of spaces in the lot. (Bloom’s Taxonomy – Analyzing) ** 3.  ** Evaluates the effectiveness of the final parking lot design. (Bloom’s Taxonomy – Evaluation) You must also include your calculations in an addendum to the memo. ** Standards/criteria:   ** · The parking lot layout must be at least 11” by 17” and must be to drawn to scale. · All the parking requirements must be clearly shown on the parking layout. · Parking layout must show sufficient detail to allow for painting parking spaces. · The memo must clearly state how the parking layout meets each of the requirements created by the building committee. · The memo must discuss how the designer addressed the tradeoff between safety (width of parking spaces) and number of spaces in the lot. · The memo must also include a brief evaluation of the final design presented. How effective is this parking lot design, not just at meeting the design criteria, but also in final use. · The addendum to the memo must show the algebraic equations used to calculate the number of spots in each row and the width of each parking spot. ** Facets of Understanding:  ** · Explain – Explain how the parking layout meets all of the building committee requirements. · Interpret – Interpret the ADA parking requirements to apply them to the parking lot design. · Apply – Apply algebraic solution techniques to calculate the number of parking lot spaces and their width.

** Final Project Grading:  ** The project is worth 20 points. Points will be awarded based on the rubric shown below.
 * Category   ||    4    ||    3    ||    2    ||    1    ||
 * Mathematical Problem Setup  ||   Problem setup is logical and well documented. Algebraic equations are correctly written and used.   ||   Problem set up is workable, but contains some errors. Documentation is adequate.    ||   Problem setup has some significant errors. Documentation is difficult to follow.   ||   Problem setup does not allow for problem solution. Documentation does not allow reader to follow work.   ||
 * Accuracy of Work  ||   The work is accurate throughout. All calculations are correct and properly labeled.   ||   The majority of the work is accurate. There are minor calculation errors. Labels may occasionally be missing.   ||   The work includes multiple significant calculation errors, but the reader is still able to follow the calculations.   ||   The work includes major calculation errors that render final results invalid.   ||
 * Parking Lot Layout   ||   Layout is at least 11” x 17”, clearly shows all the parking requirements, is to scale, and shows sufficient detail to paint the lines.    ||   Layout shows all parking requirements but is lacking some details required for line painting.   ||   Layout is missing 1 or 2 parking requirements, the drawing is not clear, or is missing significant details.   ||   Layout is missing significant parking requirements, is not legible, or is not to scale.   ||
 * Memo to Building Committee  ||   The memo clearly describes how the layout meets the requirements, discusses the safety/parking space trade-off and evaluates final layout.    ||   The memo adequately describes how the layout meets the requirements, discusses the safety/parking space trade-off, and evaluates final layout.    ||   The memo describes how the layout meets the requirements, but does not sufficiently address safety/parking space trade-off or evaluate final layout.   ||   The purpose of the memo is unclear. The memo does not adequately describe how the layout meets the requirements.    ||
 * Quality of Presentation   ||   Presentation is attractive, easy to read, and free of grammatical errors.   ||   Presentation is adequate, readable, and contains only minor grammatical errors.   ||   Presentation is not attractive and difficult to follow in places. Grammatical errors interfere with reading.    ||   Presentation is sloppy, confusing, or difficult to read. Grammatical errors are significant.   ||