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Mr. Jim Anderst -7- September 9, 2005 POTENTIAL PARKING DEMAND INCREASE FOR TRANSTT PARK/RIDE We understand the City has an agreement with tlxe Metro�olitan Council,whereby up to 25 spaces in the.western portion of the�pablic parking lot rnay be used in a park/ride rna�mer by transit customers. Recent surveys perfoinied by Metro Transit have indicated that about 19 transit customers aze parking in the�lot on a typical weekday basis. Thus, for tlus parking analysis purpose,we.have accaunted-for an increase of six.p.arked vehicles for transit park/ride customers during the Friday noon peak, No.increase iu transit parking�demand would occur durin�;the Saturday early afternoon peak or u�the late Saturday evening peak. PARKING DEMAND.INCREASE FOR EXPANSION OF NARR.pWS SALOON To project the inereased parking demand associated witll the proposed expansion of the 1Varrows Saloon, two approaches are available: a) Calculate the existing and future pazking reqturements through the procedures defined in the City Code. b) Estimate the future parking demaiid�by tnultiplying the existing demand by the size increase represented by the saloon expansion plans. The project architect, SyIvia Frank,has calculated the existing and future City Code parldng requirements, and the results are as follows: � Existing park.ing spaces re.quired=38 • Parlang spaces required following completion of proposed expansion=57 Thus, the Narrows Saloon woi�ld need just 19 additional parking s�aces to satisfy City Code parking requirements. Though our.parking survey did not distinguish users of the Narrows Saloon from users of other businesses in the,area,.our sub-area parking analys4s provides a strong basis to establisl� conservatively high estirnates regarding existing�par�uag demand for the�Narrows Saloon as follows: • For the Friday noon peak period, we have astimated the parki.ng demand for th.e Narrows Saloon consists of all vehicles pa.rked in.sub-area A plus %Z the vehieles parked in sub-area B. Qn this basis, the estiinated existing parking deznand fox the Nanows Saloon is 34 vehicles. � For the Saturd�y early afternQon peak period, we would estimatc parking demaud for tha Narrows Saloon in the same matuier as for the Friday noan period,namely all occupied spaGes in.sub-area A:plus %2�the occupied spaces in sub-�tea B. Tlte resultant esrimated exisring pazking demand for the Narrows Saloon during this p.eniod is 25 vehicles. • For.the late Saturday avening peak_period, we would apply the consezvative assumption that all vehicles parked.in sub-areas A and B represented.users of the Na�rows Saloon. Thus, the total �stiznated existing parking demand for the�IVarrows Saloon dtu-ing this period is 60 vehieles. G1 i if�G1'.J T.l.Q i GC? ?C� •"1f1��H 'S2 -lflfltJQF.1�Gf �L'�FLl CGiGi?-S7G-.J��