PARKLET Definition & Meaning

parklet

[ pahrk-lit ]

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noun

an urban space for sitting, dining, or enjoying greenery, established where the sidewalk meets the street, often repurposing on-street parking spaces and part of the sidewalk: If the parklet stretches over the curb or covers the curb cuts, the city requires ramps be added for wheelchair accessibility.
The restaurant’s owners were able to expand seating with café tables in a new outdoor dining parklet.
If the parklet stretches over the curb or covers the curb cuts, the city requires ramps be added for wheelchair accessibility.

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Origin of parklet¹

First recorded in 1850–55, and in 2010–15 for current sense

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But that outrage hasn’t reached this parklet, where the basketball hoops lack nets and the closest bathroom is in a nearby church.

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The wee parklet hosts the city’s biggest farmers market at the base of the Witness Trees, enigmatic statues that might puzzle Erikson, as they look more like Disney attractions than they do Norse artifacts, but they have a certain eerie pagan-ness to them that he might have appreciated.

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The succulent-adorned parklet outside of Hook Fish was filled on a recent Friday afternoon with customers enjoying a late lunch of $17 burritos with carrot hot sauce.

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“The drummer needed so much help tonight,” jokes LaDaniel Gipson, the soft-spoken, steady-handed drummer in question who’s perched on the ledge of Easy Street’s outdoor parklet as cars whiz by.

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However, the installation of wooden "parklet" seating areas on the town's busy Mercer Row appears to have lit the blue touch paper on a spate of vandalism and discontent.

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