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MS-3121 Narrowi Saloon Expansion October 6,2005 Pages The City ’s traffic consultant, Sheldon Johnson of Bonestroo & Associates, reviewed this parking study and provided a number of findings and conclusions, (Exhibit E of Sept. 16 PC memo). His primary conclusions were: the study did not address the parking required by City code for the various users of the municipal lot based on the square footages of particular uses. Rather, the study focused on actual counts of parking lot usage at certain peak times. the study did not address the potential parking demand the other businesses might generate should they re-develop, and how that correlates to the parking demand of the proposed expanded Narrows operation. Some of the more significant concerns about the Navarre municipal parking lot situation generated by staff, PC and the public during the Narrows expansion review process include: how or whether use of the municipal lot should be apportioned to the various users, and how to establish a fair approtionment; there is no apportionment currently. whether the fact that the striping is substandard (16* deep stalls instead of 20* per City code) is a factor in the functionality of the lot; how many stalls would be lost by restriping it to meet code; why the City has striped it in a substandard manner (A: to maximize the number of stalls available given the dimensional parameters of the lot); whether the demands of an expanded Narrows operation will ciuse parking issues for the existing businesses and entities using the lot; and whether approval of an expanded Narrows operation will ultimately (and/or unfairly) limit the fiitiuv expansion or redevelopment of businesses that rely on the lot, or have negative impacts on the level of non-business uses of the lot (park & ride, Navarre Park patrons, etc.) Update of 2000 Municipal Lot Parking Needs Analysis . Staff has completed an analysis of the amount of parking that would be required by City code for the existing business users. This analysis is based solely on the footprint square footages of the 6 existing buildings directly abutting the Navar.e municipal lot, and their existing businesses, and does not account for other uses not related directly to those businesses, such as the the Park & Ride, or Navarre City Park users. It also does not account for the potential 26 stall commitment to the 2385 Shadywood property from 1983. The following lable illustrates how much parking would be required by per Zoning Code Section 78-1516: Required Off Street Parking of the Zoning Ordinance: