QUESTION
Are there any city-controlled parking lots unsuitable for solar canopy installation even if cost-effective?
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Brent Taylor explains that the suitability of city-controlled parking lots for solar canopy installation varies, with factors such as sunlight exposure, construction challenges, and electrical grid access influencing feasibility.
- Sunlight exposure can be limited by surrounding buildings, as exemplified by a parking lot near Elk Street.
- Construction challenges include the need to level areas with significant gradient and accommodate different vehicle heights.
- Electrical grid access for solar canopies is essential, and its availability varies by location.
- Each parking location is evaluated on a case-by-case basis for the feasibility of installing solar canopies.
Sandy Nurse
0:55:25
Does the administration believe that there are any categories of city controlled parking lots where it would not make sense to install solar canopies even if they are cost effective.
Sanna Barakat
0:55:37
Talking loud question, Brent, would you like to come up?
0:55:41
Sure.
0:55:43
You you wanna can you
UNKNOWN
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please state your name for Robert?
Brent Taylor
0:55:47
Brent Taylor.
UNKNOWN
0:55:47
Okay.
0:55:48
Raise your right hand.
0:55:49
Mhmm.
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Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and you have to answer all accounts number questions, honestly?
Brent Taylor
0:55:55
Yes.
Rich Mantell
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You may proceed.
Brent Taylor
0:55:57
Thank you.
0:56:05
Hi.
0:56:05
Good afternoon.
0:56:06
The there's certainly a lot of nuance between the parking structures within the city is its council member Holden mentioned Manhattan particularly is very challenging, you know, right across the street at Elk Street.
0:56:19
We have a a wide open parking lot that's buttrusted by 2 buildings from the the east and the west side.
0:56:26
So the amount of sunlight that you're gonna get is gonna be nominal during any portion of the day.
0:56:31
So other factors include grade, also taking that parking lot in to account.
0:56:37
It's got a pretty significant grade that would have to be, you know, require a really significant construction project to bring it level.
0:56:44
So those would not be the the most ideal spaces.
0:56:48
Also, the height of construction that you're looking to to establish in terms of what kind of vehicles could plug in to those chargers?
0:56:56
Could we plug in mid heavy duty or medium duty vehicles like last mile delivery trucks and that's sort of thing.
0:57:03
Those are factors we wanna take into account as well as electrical service going in.
0:57:07
These solar canopies are grid tied.
0:57:09
So we are gonna have to connect to the grid for them and the access to the grid from where those canopies would be installed is gonna vary from location to location plasticity of the job isn't going to vary quite a bit as well.
0:57:22
So so, yes, we would definitely take each parking location on a case by case basis and evaluate it for the feasibility of the installation.
Sandy Nurse
0:57:31
Okay.