Well once you factor in employee parking, we are roughly at a 1:1700 ration parking:sqft. But that’s based on property owned since I don’t have a good measure of the park itself.
Using a mapping program the rough area of the actual park is 5,500,000 squarefeet, giving 1 spot per 720 square feet.
For parking, the number of spots is run through JCC (from what I understood in reading) with the zoning for the lots through York County, with JCC understanding that not all parking is in their county. I’ve worked on a project like it before, typically the counties do some type of trade off with each other, so maybe elsewhere JCC did something like rezone something from single family dwellings to multi family for a town center right on the county line so the developer has an expansion plot.
EDIT: In general there's going to be less parking per square foot based on anticipating on a certain number of busses, multiple families in one car, and other large groups in non-busses. Also there's shuttles from hotels, but you would anticipate that to be much bigger in certain parks than other ones. (Anticipation that BGW would be on the low end of that spectrum, and WDW on the high end). That all plays into it, but generally you can use it to give a good guidance. I'd also say keep in mind because there's an overflow lot doesn't mean you can hit what the park should hold and still be using it. If you got more busses than anticipated you could not use all the parking and be at that top end. I'd say that most likely they figured the max parking spots by assuming minimal bus groups.
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