Parking lot

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A parking lot (North American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is an area designated for parking spaces for a large number of automobiles. The term usually refers to paved land with surface markings dedicated only for parking privately owned vehicles, and may or may not require the driver to pay a fee and/or display a ticket in order to use the facility. In most jurisdictions where private motor vehicles are the dominant mode of transportation, parking lots are a major infrastructure of cities and suburban areas. Shopping malls, sports venues, parks and resorts, and other similar facilities that expect significant patronage often have immense parking lots. Some parking lots are built as low-rise buildings — i.e., multistory parking garages — to maximize the usable area ratio for a given plot of land. Parking lots tend to be sources of water pollution because of their extensive impervious surfaces, and because most have limited or no facilities to control...

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