Wells + Associates - Traffic, Transportation & Parking

Traffic, Transportation and Parking Consultants

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Cranbrook, Lower, Middle,
and Upper Schools

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

George Booth founded Cranbrook on a 300-acre, rural campus in 1901. Today,

Cranbrook is a diverse, complex, community of private and public institutions, including Brookside Lower School, Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School, Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, the Academy of Art/Museum, the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook House and Gardens, and Christ Church Cranbrook.

Wells + Associates was retained by Cranbrook to conduct a campus-wide parking and circulation study. This included:

•	Interviews of more than 30 key persons
•	Identification of existing parking and circulation problems through extensive field surveys
•	Identification of short- and long-term parking and circulation needs
•	Formulation and evaluation of a broad range of alternative parking and circulation plans
•	Development of recommended parking, traffic, pedestrian, signing, lighting, and policy plans

Parking solutions evaluated in this study included: (1) new parking lots located within easy walking distance of campus buildings, (2) a visitor “anchor” parking lot located on the perimeter of the campus near the main entrance, (3) a plan that would link existing and new lots to various campus attractions via shuttle buses, and (4) designation of visitor, faculty, staff, and student parking areas.

Wells + Associates recommended construction of a new, 400-space, anchor parking lot on the periphery of the campus near the main entrance; construction of new, small, strategically-located, on-campus lots; re-configuration of existing lots; re-designation of the use of existing lots; prohibition of parking in sensitive areas; and improved landscaping.

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