Commercial & Parking Lots
Commercial paving for parking lots at offices, apartment complexes, retail centers, business parks and wineries, including striping and ADA layout.
Parking lot striping is what makes a lot in Petaluma work. The lines tell drivers where to park, where to drive and where they cannot stop. They carry the accessible spaces, the fire lanes and the arrows that a fire marshal or building official checks. Line striping is the same job under a different name. Paint fades under sun and tires, and a faded lot loses stalls and loses compliance. We stripe new lots and restripe old ones across Sonoma County.
Most striping work follows something else. A commercial lot gets paved, or a fresh seal coat goes over the old surface. Either way the layout has to come back. Other lots just need the lines put back after years of traffic. We stripe after potholes and failed spots are cut out too, since a patch takes the old paint with it. Restriping is the least expensive work you can do on a lot. It is also the first thing a customer notices.
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California uses its own accessibility code, Chapter 11B of the California Building Code. It sets how many accessible stalls a lot needs. A lot with 1 to 25 spaces needs one. From 26 to 50 spaces it needs two. From 51 to 75 it needs three, and 76 to 100 needs four. At least one of every six accessible spaces has to be a van space. A car stall is 108 inches wide and 216 inches long at a minimum. A van stall is 144 inches wide.
The access aisle beside each accessible stall is 60 inches wide. It runs the full length of the stall. The aisle gets a blue painted border with hatched lines no more than 36 inches apart. NO PARKING goes inside it in white letters at least 12 inches tall. The accessibility symbol is painted white on a blue background, at least 36 inches square. A tow away sign of 17 by 22 inches goes up too. Vehicle Code section 22511.8 carries the same sign rule. Civil Code section 52 puts the floor for damages at $4,000 per offense.
If the parking lot layout still works and the lines have just faded, a restripe is the job. We paint over the existing lines, so the stalls, arrows and aisles land where they always did. Most lots reach that point every 18 to 24 months. Drive aisles, delivery routes and full sun wear paint faster than the stalls do. Once the accessibility symbol or the aisle lettering is hard to read, the lot is past due.
A new layout is a different job. The US Access Board treats resurfacing or an overlay as an alteration rather than maintenance. The restriped lot then has to meet the current accessible parking rules, even if the old layout did not. Repainting a few existing stalls in place stays maintenance. Adding or removing spaces also puts the count back in play. If you are weighing resurfacing a lot against replacing it, settle the surface first and stripe after.
We stripe the lots we pave and resurface, and we restripe lots that have gone faded. The layout covers standard stalls plus ADA stalls with access aisles and van spaces. The painted accessibility symbol and the NO PARKING aisle lettering go with them. We paint directional arrows, stop bars, crosswalks, fire lanes, red curbs and no parking zones. Stencils for visitor, reserved and compact stalls go down at the same time. We also mark where the required signs belong.
Ramps, walkways and curb work are concrete jobs. The company pours those as flatwork, walkways and curbs. Sign posts, wheel stops and speed bumps sit outside our striping work, along with thermoplastic markings and interior warehouse floors. The painting itself needs clean, dry pavement. We chalk the layout first, then run waterborne traffic paint. New work gets two coats once the asphalt has cured. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District caps traffic marking coatings at 100 grams of VOC per liter. Lots that cannot close get night or weekend work.
Fire lane marking follows the fire code and gets approved by the local fire official. Permit Sonoma's fire lane bulletin points to California Fire Code Section 503. It allows a red curb or red pavement edge with FIRE LANE painted in a contrasting color. Santa Rosa spells it out further. Curbs go OSHA safety red there. The fire lane and no parking wording is 3 inch white letters, spaced 30 feet on center. We paint to what the reviewing office asks for.
The lots we stripe here are tasting room and winery visitor lots, apartment complexes and business parks. Medical and retail lots and HOA property fill out the rest. Paint needs dry pavement, and the county gives a long dry window. Petaluma Airport records average 0.06 inches of rain in July and 0.09 in August. That is against about 24 inches for the year. We stripe lots in Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Windsor, Novato and San Rafael. We travel for East Bay lots in Oakland. You can ask for a striping estimate before the rains return.
Clear written estimates across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the Bay Area.
(707) 217-0835From the first site visit to the final pass of the roller, here is how it goes.
We come see the site: the old surface, the ground under it, how water moves, and what the job really takes. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a written estimate with a real number and a real timeline. It covers what is included, from grading and base rock to the finished surface, and it holds unless the scope changes.
Our own crew and equipment show up when we said and build the job the way we quoted it. Base first, then the surface, compacted and finished right.
Before we call a job done, we walk it with you. Clean edges, solid compaction, water running where it should. Done means you say it is done.
Common questions about parking lot striping across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the Bay Area. Don't see yours? Give us a call.
Commercial paving for parking lots at offices, apartment complexes, retail centers, business parks and wineries, including striping and ADA layout.
We sealcoat asphalt driveways and parking lots across Sonoma County. A fresh seal coat restores the black finish and slows sun and water damage.
We resurface asphalt driveways and parking lots across Petaluma and Sonoma County, milling the old surface and laying a fresh hot mix overlay.
Rich's Paving is a third generation family paving company. The family name is on the work, and the family runs the crew on every job.
Most companies do one or the other. We install both, so you get a recommendation based on your property, not on the only material a contractor happens to sell.
Paver, rollers, dump trucks and compaction equipment, run by our own crew. The schedule and the quality stay in our hands from grading to the last pass.
Clay soils that swell in the winter rain and shrink all summer. We have paved on this ground since 1988, and we build the base for what it does.
A driveway past its best years, a parking lot due for new stripes, or a gravel road that needs real grading? Call or send the form. We will come look at the job and put a clear estimate in your hands, from the family that has paved Sonoma County since 1988.
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