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I guess it's parking space that's the reason for why SV office spaces don't go very high vertically?



Zoning. Going higher doesn't change your parking needs.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-law...


Going higher would generally mean you need more parking for the amount of land the building takes up.


Sure, but you're building on a dramatically smaller piece of land so your total overall parking requirement doesn't change. 4 stories of 100,000sqft vs 40 stories of 10,000sqft hold the same number of workers, but the tower only uses 1/10th of the footprint.

The fun part is when you start building a lot of these towers very close to each other and then all of a sudden your parking needs plummet because transit is way more effective.

It's not going to happen in the Valley though, they're stuck with gross office parks.




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